"Peppa Pig and Homer Simpson could be fuelling the child obesity crisis by causing youngsters to eat more," The Daily Telegraph reports after a series of psychological experiments found a link between exposure to overweight characters…
“People with coronary artery disease have an increased risk of death if they have fat around the waist,” BBC News has reported. This news story is based on a systematic review that combined...
"You can be fat and healthy," is the misleading headline from the Daily Mail. While a Dutch study did find that activity could help avoid the increased risk of cardiovascular disease associated with obesity…
"Third of overweight teenagers think they are right size, study shows," The Guardian says in one of many headlines on widely covered UK research...
Behind the headlines article on news coverage of reports that salt may be partly to blame for obese children.
“More aggressive men with higher testosterone levels are less likely to die of heart disease”, reported The Daily Telegraph. It said that a seven year study of 930 men with diagnosed heart disease found...
An epilepsy drug being touted as a possible tool to fight obesity could also pose a threat to patients' sight, the Daily Mail reports. It says the drug vigabatrin
"Thousands of pregnant women are unwittingly passing on infections to their unborn babies that cause severe disabilities," is the headline in the Daily Mail after a new report highlighted the risks cytomegalovirus (CMV) can pose to pregnancies…
“Dieting without exercise 'will NOT help you lose weight',” reported the Daily Mail. It said scientists believe that this may be because of “a natural compensatory