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A mother who once spent up to £120 a week on takeaways says she was left 'out of breath doing almost anything' before losing nearly five stone - without weight loss injections.Whitley Lloyd, 34, from Brecon in Wales, turned to food for…

The world's most obese man, who once weighed more than 1,300 pounds, has died at the age of 41 after developing a serious kidney infection.Juan Pedro Franco passed away on December 24 while receiving treatment in a hospital in the…

A severely obese man has slammed his local NHS trust for refusing to perform bariatric surgery on him for a second time—and says it's because his ADHD makes him crave sugary foods.Keren Slater, 48, was given an NHS-funded gastric band in…

Dr Brittany Booth will never forget the mortifying moment she knew something needed to change.She was nearly 30, fresh out of medical school and working as a resident physician in Pennsylvania, where a big part of her job was advising…

A mother-of-two has revealed how her daughter's mysterious weight gain was a sign of a rare genetic disorder. As Ciara Keown's four-year-old daughter, Harper, entered pre-K, she began suffering meltdowns over fitting into her clothes and…

Up to eight million more adults in the UK could be classed as obese under a radical shake-up of the body-mass-index (BMI) system, experts have warned.Under the current rules, a BMI score of 18.5 to 25 is healthy, 25 to 29 is overweight,…

Kait Handler's debilitating battle with food started as a child and it is still something that haunts her to this day. So when the yo-yo dieter noticed her own daughter Birdie started developing the same issues around her weight at the…

Americans of all shapes and sizes are heading to pharmacies and doctors' offices this fall for flu and Covid shots, but they may not know that size matters when it comes to the needle going into their arms.Centers for Disease Control and…

More states are fatter than ever, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).In 2022, a record three states had more than 40 percent of their adults classified as obese — West Virginia, Louisiana and…

Private clinics are flouting Government guidance by handing over prescriptions of vital diabetes drugs to dieters who use the jabs to lose weight, a Mail on Sunday investigation has discovered.Ozempic, also known as semaglutide, and…