Obesity

Diet of dense foods is the trick TRICKING ourselves into feeling full could be key to tackling rising rates of obesity, a conference will hear today.

'Drastic gastric op has helped to turn my life around' As debate rages over offering bariatric surgery to the obese on the NHS, we hear how the procedure can change lives

Don't be a silly sausage with diets – soya banger can beat the bulge IT IS the Mount Everest of the health campaigner – persuading Scottish men to give up their love affair with fried sausage and bacon, fatty mince, and giant plates of steak.

More Scots opting to go under knife to win battle of the bulge A DRAMATIC increase in Scots turning to fat-busting surgery has reopened a debate on the problem of obesity north of the Border.

Anti-obesity drive has a French connection

Scots too scared of being stigmatised by medics to ask for obesity treatment

Towns unite for £1.4m campaign to fight obesity

Tenfold rise in gastric band op for fat Scots

The more PE, the less exercise children do outside school

Diet queen Amanda Hamilton accuses rival of creating drama without solving eating disorders

Tubby or not tubby? Ryanair ponders slapping 'fat tax' on weighty passengers

Fat-busting pills go on sale over the counter

Don't take that last bite – you are destroying the world

BMI = w÷h²* The formula to beat obesity, claims SNP

You want fries with that calorie count? Fast-food giants put diet data on menu

Fire crews struggle with burden of fat patients

Comment: Just another taste of the nanny state

Food firms in calorie pledge

Children's poor choices threaten free school meals project

University acts to fight obesity epidemic

City schools still off the pace for PE

Moderately obese? It may cost you four years of life

Beating obesity looks like child's play as experts back 'active' game consoles

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