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The British Medical Journal has reported that operations for gastric banding and bypasses have increased in numbers from 238 in the year 2000 to 2,543 operations in 2007...

More obesity news and this time it is not about suppressing our hunger with medical treatments but actually about what we feed ourselves that may be the answer to beating obesity...

Researchers from the University of Cincinnati, in a study they carried out earlier this month, have found that the best way to motivate obese individuals is to emphasise the immediate benefits they will enjoy from exercise and eating right rather than warning them about the more long term effects th...

In the new government’s first indication of how they will be tacking the obesity crisis, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has said that government funding of the Change4Life public health campaign is to be withdrawn...

We have just heard that Novo Nordisk is to reinitiate Phase III clinical trials for Liraglutide as an anti-obesity drug...