First UK study to look at body weight and sexual orientation reveals health disparities in sexual minorities.
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Body mass index is often used to gauge health. But there may be more accurate measures. A report on your blood metabolites, your metabolome, may distinguish healthier-obese from sicker-obese.
The Daily Mile started in a primary school in central Scotland six years ago. Now it has spread to 3,600 schools in 35 countries.
It puts an average 1.4kg on the weighing scales.
The Body Mass Index is used to assess the risk of lifestyle diseases, but the relationship between BMI and chronic illnesses remains far from simple.
Of the 22,713 weight loss operations performed in 2014-15, about 90% were performed in private hospitals, highlighting the difficulty in accessing this type of surgery through the public system.
Horrors of job discrimination.
To tackle obesity, the NHS is experimenting with financial incentives, dieting clubs and free exercise classes. But what about prescribing digital fitness trackers?
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Senior lecturer, Massey University
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Associate Professor in Physiology, Exercise and Nutrition, University of Stirling
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Lecturer in Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen
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Senior Lecturer in Physiology, Exercise and Nutrition, University of Stirling
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Professor of Practice, Human Sciences Research Council
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Charles Perkins Centre Research Program Leader, University of Sydney
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Research fellow, University of Manchester
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Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of East Anglia
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Assistant Professor in Business Economics, University of Bath
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Senior Researcher, Diet and Obesity, University of Oxford
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Doctoral Researcher, University of Stirling
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Affiliate faculty in Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UCSD ; Professor of Genomics at Scripps, The Scripps Research Institute
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Professor, NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
