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Diabetes drug could be the first to reverse the disease

Rising obesity is leading to a boom in type 2 diabetes. A drug that reverses the condition in obese mice could make it much easier to control the disease

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Why we are so bad at spotting if our kids are overweight

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Junk food tax and veg subsidies could add 500,000 years of life

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Fat shaming is everywhere but gets society precisely nowhere

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Overweight mothers give birth to biologically older babies

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Don't lose sleep over the claim that long naps may make you ill

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UK childhood obesity plan is a spineless, worthless document

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An overweight person eating takeaway food

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Childhood obesity strategy stops short of banning junk food ads

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Being fat in middle age may shrink your brain’s white matter

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Beyond drugs: the war on lifestyle disease needs new tactics

If we rely solely on medical sciences to get us out of a global epidemic of "lifestyle" disease, we will fail, warns Luke Allen

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Most powerful obesity gene yet boosts risk by 40 per cent

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City slicker monkeys are overweight and have high cholesterol

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Obese grandfathers pass on their susceptibility to junk food

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'Stomach tap' to let obese people empty their gut after eating

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