by main | May 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Obesity and diabetes are linked According to a July 2014 paper from Public Health England, obese adults are five times more likely to be diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes than those of a healthy weight. The health impact of contracting Type 2 Diabetes is...
by main | May 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
You may be reading two things: 1. Fruit is good for you 2. Fructose is as bad as sugar so you mustn’t eat it. And both of these things are against a background of it being suggested that we should be eating five portions of fruit and veg a day as an...
by main | May 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
We’re sadly all too aware that there’s been a global rise in obesity – both in children and in adults. In fact a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in November 2017 showed that 27% of the UK population had a BMI of 30...
by main | May 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
You might be surprised to learn that your adipose tissue (body fat) is one of the largest endocrine organs in your body excreting a number of bioactive hormones called adipokines. We actually didn’t discover this until 1994. Adipokines are key players in the...
by main | May 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Between the 1st February and the 25th April NHS England looked at over 17 million electronic health records of UK adults in order to identify any common factors that were associated with COVID-19 related hospital death. Although this has not yet been peer...
