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If you are overweight, the one person you might expect to treat you fairly and in an unbiased manner is your dietician...

New research has been published providing further information on the link between obesity and a genetic predisposition to weight gain...

It is believed that in the UK, 1 in 6 pregnant women are obese, but fears have now been raised that a mother’s weight can have a significant impact on the health of their unborn child, with pregnant mothers putting their babies at risk of a range of illnesses and defects...

The Food Standards Agency, which acts as a watchdog over the eating habits of the UK, has today launched a campaign to alert us to the dangers of eating too much saturated fat, which surveys suggest at least 20% of us are doing...

This is actually slightly old news – we’ve written about it a few times in the blog before – but scientists are claiming that you may be able to catch obesity like a cold and have received a massive amount of publicity after a star turn on the BBC program Horizon, shown yesterday night...