People with obesity are at 70 percent higher risk of serious infections, with one in ten infectious disease deaths globally ...

Efforts to rein it in have failed. After a 2006 Institute of Medicine report linking food advertising to obesity risk, industry responded with voluntary self-regulation through the Children’s Food and ...

A prospective multicohort study suggested that obesity was associated with a higher risk of severe and fatal infections. Obesity was most strongly linked to skin and soft tissue infections and showed ...