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"Scotland is set to shed its reputation as the "fat man of Britain" over the next 20 years as it is overtaken by both England and Wales…"

The number of morbidly obese adults across Britain is expected to double from 1.9 million in 2015 to more than 4 million in 2035, new projections suggest.

• Highest rate in Wales where 13% of men and 9% of women will be affected 
• 6% of English men aged 55-64 are likely to be morbidly obese by 2035
• Overly obese at higher risk of  diabetes, heart disease, stroke and some cancers
• Morbid obesity already accounts for around a third of all obesity-related costs

Cancer Research UK says people born between early 80s and mid-90s set to overtake baby boomers

Middle-aged millennials are set to be the most overweight generation since records began, with experts warning they are unwittingly and significantly increasing their risk of cancer. Analysis by Cancer Research UK (CRUK) shows that on current trends 70 per cent of millennials, those born between the early 1980s to mid-1990s, will be overweight or obese by the age 35 to 45.

The number of lone parent families in Britain are overstated in statistics that risk airbrushing fathers out of family life in what Fatherhood Institute chief Adrienne Burgess called an 'unacceptable' failure.

Isolated older people living in poverty are suffering from food insecurity.

New research says that strength training is as important for your overall health as cardio.

Public Health England’s research suggests large numbers of adults do not walk for 10 minutes at a time once a month

Want to live a longer, healthier life? Pick up your pace. A new study finds that people who walk at a brisk pace are much less likely to develop heart disease or suffer an early death than those who walk at slow speeds, especially when it comes to older adults.

Researchers from the University of Sydney examined data from 50,225 people over 30 who participated in major population-based studies from the United Kingdom — the Health Survey for England and the Scottish Health Survey — between 1994 and 2008. Participants used for the study had reported walking for at least 10 to 30 minutes on a given day within the previous month and had no prior diagnoses of heart disease, angina or stroke, or cancer.

Use this calculator to find out how your BMI compares with the rest of the nation and get tips from health experts.

Just half of their parents - the so-called baby boomers - were overweight or obese at the same age, Cancer Research UK suggests.

Experts predict seven out of ten will be overweight or obese by middle age

Over 70% of them will be overweight or obese before they reach middle age, health experts say.

If you chose to, you could look at my son's mum as a single mother. In fact he has, for almost all of his 18 years, been surrounded by four loving parents

Strengthening exercises such as press ups and sit ups prevent cancer in a way that jogging doesn't, a new study from the University of Sydney in Australia has revealed.

In new research from the Arthritis Research UK Centre for Sport, Exercise and Osteoarthritis, researchers from the University of Oxford and our Department for Health have identified that former elite, male rugby union player

Four in ten middle-aged adults are failing to manage even one 10 minute brisk walk a month, health officials have warned.