Hong Kong health department officials are planning to enact laws to make sure children are provided with healthy lunch as increase in obesity among kids is posing a threat. AFP reported quoting a report published in the Sunday Morning Post th

t the law would regulate lunches offered to youngsters at school canteens. The law will be enacted by 2007. A recently conducted study showed that "the rate of obesity has gone up to almost one in five and that the mean weight of 18-year old boys had increased 16 percent in five years and for girls the figure was 11 percent,"

San Diego biotech company, Arena Pharmaceuticals, says an experimental anti-obesity drug called ADP356 has done well in small clinical Phase II trials.

The drub, when taken at it's highest dose enabled obese people to lose an average of 2.9 pounds after 28 days, compared with just 0.7 pounds for those getting a placebo

Scientists believe that insulin resistance, which can lead to diabetes, might stem from the habits of a child's grandmother.

Animal studies suggest that children may be at increased risk of diabetes if their grandmother maintained a poor diet while pregnant and breast feeding

Former President Bill Clinton annouced the launch of a 10-year initiative to combat childhood obesity Tuesday. In his announcement, Clinton stated that "we've got to change the eating habits of America's young people."

Clinton, along with Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee who has also battled a weight problem, says his concerned for the subject came after undergoing heart bypass surgery last year

Obesity is growing more quickly among Americans who earn $60,000 a year or more, researchers from the University of Iowa reported Monday.

Using data from a government health database, the researchers discovered that 9.7 percent of people with incomes above $60,000 were obese in the 1970s. That figure leaped to 26.8 percent in 2002