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The air that women breathe up to three months before they become pregnant can have an effect on the future baby’s size. A ...

An international research team co-led by the Keck School of Medicine of USC found that greater air pollution exposure in the ...

In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...

Discover how pre-pregnancy exposure to air pollution can elevate childhood obesity risk and the significance of reducing it.

In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy predicted higher child ...

A new generation of weight loss drugs has helped some people lose significant amounts of weight and improve their health.

BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.

Huge numbers of the 17.6million Brits who have been told that they are overweight are in fact perfectly healthy, the ...

In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy predicted higher child body mass index (BMI) and related obesity risk ...

Asked specifically about the National Childhood Measurement Programme, which measures the level of obesity in children using ...