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A study by the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre has produced some rather extraordinary results which suggest that body shape can have a huge impact on the propensity to heart disease in later life, even if the overall weight of the person is normal...

Leptin, a hormone which occurs naturally in the body, has been found to control people’s fondness for food as well as regulating appetite...

Back in January we brought you a story about a UK Government think tank proposing a “fat tax” on certain foods which are deemed to be unhealthy...

A rather extraordinary study by some scientists in Sweden has revealed that the key to beating diabetes could lie in adopting a Palaeolithic diet similar to our hunter-gatherer ancestors...

Scientists at Georgetown University in Washington D...