Obesity

The City of Columbus is now requiring restaurants to make healthy drinks such as water, low-fat milk and 100 percent fruit juice the default options…

Data recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have raised questions about causes of death among those who contract COVID-19.…

A comprehensive new report from UNICEF calls attention to the surge in obesity in developing countries — even as they're dealing with children who are undernourished.

The conventional wisdom is that city life makes you fat and rural life keeps you trim. A new study looks at the numbers to see if that holds true.

A new study by the non-partisan Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows child obesity remains a major health challenge in Ohio. The study shows nearly…

A new annual report by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows Ohio's current obesity rate is 33.8 percent, up from…

The childhood obesity epidemic rages on in the United States, with a big surge among the youngest kids, according to the latest government data.

The number of young people with obesity has risen tenfold since 1975, according to a study from the World Health Organization. At the same time, that rise has been far from uniform across the world.

Nearly a third of adult Ohioans are considered obese, according to a survey from the Trust for America's Health. Alison Holm has details. Ohio ranks 8th…

Ohio is ranked 12th on a list of the nation's most-obese states. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index says nearly 30-percent of Ohio residents were…