Obesity

Around four million people in the UK carry genetic variants that protect them from obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease, suggests new research...

In the largest study of its kind to date, Cambridge researchers have looked at why some people manage to stay thin while others gain weight easily...

Obesity is often characterised as nothing more than greed and lack of willpower. The truth is far more complex.

New evidence published in the Cochrane Library today shows that adding calorie labels to menus and next to food in restaurants, coffee shops and...

Extending NHS weight loss programmes from one session per week for 12-weeks to one session per week for a year helped people who are overweight to...

Eating a high fat and high sugar diet when pregnant leads to metabolic impairments in both the mother and her unborn child, which may 'program' them...

People who carry variants in a particular gene have an increased preference for high fat food, but a decreased preference for sugary foods, according...

From middle-age, the brains of obese individuals display differences in white matter similar to those in lean individuals ten years their senior...