Some regions will see the share of older people double in the next 30 years, including Northern Africa, Asia and Latin America. By 2050, a quarter of the population in European and Northern ...

Obesity has long been classified as a global epidemic — and new data published in The Lancet journal spotlights how much ...

A third of all obese young people will be living in two regions – North Africa and the Middle East, and Latin America and the Caribbean – by 2050, the researchers warned. But it is not too ...

In terms of raw numbers, China (627 million), India (450 million) and the USA (214 million) will be the countries with the biggest populations of overweight or obese people in 2050. However ...