"An expansion of weight loss surgery in England is being proposed to tackle an epidemic of type 2 diabetes," BBC News reports. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended that obese people with type 2 diabetes…
"The cholesterol drug that outperforms statins: Patients on the medication are '27% less likely to suffer a heart attack'," the Daily Mail reports. The drug, evolocumab, makes the liver more effective at removing "bad" cholesterol from the blood…
“Children are five times more likely to become obese if their older brother or sister is overweight,” reports the Daily Mail. There is a widespread assumption that a significant risk factor for child obesity is if they have…
“The average weight gain associated with giving up smoking is much higher than previously thought,” BBC News has reported. The story comes from a study looking at weight change in smokers who...
"Set bedtimes can lead to cleverer children," the Daily Express reports, while BBC News and others report that late nights "sap children's brain power". But looking at the study these headlines are based on, it appears that most of these claims are…
“The pill that will allow you to eat what you want and not put on weight – thanks to the ‘fat controller’”, the Daily Mail has reported. It said that researchers
“Estimates that half the UK population will be obese by 2050 'underestimate' the problem, a report has claimed,” according to BBC News, while the Daily Mail describes how a “bombshell report reveals true scale of crisis”…
Levels of obesity in the western world are “soaring” and this may lead to an “infertility crisis” in women, The Guardian reported today. The newspaper continued
A “flab jab” that gets our immune systems to fight weight gain could let us “stay slim on a junk food diet”, the Daily Mail has reported