Think about those adorable fat cartoon characters — you know, the ones. They’re lovable, have a larger-than-life personality that brings back fond childhood memories, and generate big belly laughs.

There are many cartoon characters, whether on TV, in movies, in books or elsewhere, who appear to be rather rotund (obviously Homer Simpson pictured above isn’t really for young kids). But even though ...

Fat cartoon characters may lead children to eat more junk food, new research suggests, but also lists there are ways to counter this effect. Fat cartoon characters may lead children to eat more junk ...

Fans of Family Guy and Homer Simpson beware: watching chubby cartoon characters can make children, well, fat. While parents worry about junk food ads and how much time their offspring spend slumped in ...

Plump cartoon characters such as Peppa Pig and Homer Simpson might be fuelling the child obesity "crisis" by prompting youngsters to eat too much, a study suggests. Children eat more low-nutrition, ...

One of the causes of childhood obesity could be exposure to rotund cartoon characters, according to a dumb study led by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder. Based on a study of ...

What if Popeye ditched his predominantly-spinach diet? What would the Ninja Turtles really look like considering their enthusiastic pizza consumption? What if Ariel discovered an appetite for seafood?

CARTOON characters have today been labelled the bad guys in the ongoing fight against childhood obesity. CARTOON characters have today been labelled the bad guys in the ongoing fight against childhood ...

An outraged mother has hit out at a Washington kindergarten after her daughter was given a homework assignment where she had to ring the picture of a fat person. Five-year-olds in Saylor Smith's class ...