A MUM has been left fuming after receiving a letter from her daughter’s school calling the five-year-old “obese”. Samantha ...

"Not only is it perfect for personal weight management and tracking, but it even offers pet, child, and luggage measurement by simply carrying the desired subject onto the scale with you.

A conducive environment needs to be created for healthy behaviour to become natural, easy to adopt and an affordable choice ...

(We found the lock mode to be especially handy with curious little kids and pets around ... When it takes your weight, the scale just does a simple calculation to get your BMI.

Without urgent policy reform and action, over half the world's adult population (3.8 billion) and a third of all children and adolescents ... Burden of Disease Study BMI Collaborators, published ...

A major global study estimates that 50 per cent of children and young ... to the researchers, BMI is still considered "the most feasible option" for large-scale monitoring of obesity at a ...

Following a report from the Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok has the highest number of overweight and obese residents in Thailand.

Since 1990, rates of obesity increased by 155% in men, 105% in women, and 244% in children and adolescents ... with overweight (body mass index [BMI] 25 to <30) or obesity (BMI ≥30) will ...

WALKING into the WeightWatchers meeting with her mum, then-eight-year-old Sarah Le Brocq was wide-eyed. It was 1990 and she ...