In Australia, for example, obesity rates are climbing faster than anywhere else in the world, with almost a quarter of the country's children and 63% of the adult population overweight.

More than a third of 10 and 11-year-olds in Plymouth are either obese or overweight. One in five year six children in the city (20.2%) were obese in the 2023/24 academic year, according to the ...

However, it has become a controversial scale because it does not take ... being metabolized inside the body. Children with an extremely high BMI or a rapidly increasing BMI showed impaired lung ...