Diet industry will be winner in battle of the bulge as Europe goes to fat
A tide of obesity will sweep Europe over the next four years and cause a boom in the diet industry as consumers try to get back into shape, market analysts said yesterday.
Land of the fat
Obesity kills 300,000 people a year in America and is the nation's number-one health hazard. Nowhere is this more true than in Mississippi, where food is cheap and exercise unheard of. Matthew Engel visits the heaviest state of a country that is in danger of busting the scales.
Obesity link to sex hormones ‘can double breast cancer risk’
A study has found that older women who are overweight may be more likely to get breast cancer.
Warning: too tubby tots face lifetime of obesity
'Early infancy is a critical period in establishing obesity and the first few months of life should be a special focus of intervention'.
Dear doctor
Dr Ann Robinson on the proper care of moles, desensitised sex, dry mouths and anti-fat drugs
Italian ban places question mark over anti-obesity drug
A new pill to help the obese lose weight, approved for use in the NHS, was yesterday withdrawn from sale in Italy because of 50 reports of problems, including the deaths of two women.