10 September 2025
Mice with obesity have fewer immune cells in their skin that protect against psoriasis-related inflammation, potentially explaining why obesity increases the risk of the condition
12 May 2023
We have long known that parasitic worm infections are associated with lower rates of several conditions. Now, research in mice reveals how the worms elicit these protections
30 January 2023
Intermittent fasting led to a group of people with obesity losing 7.6 kilograms in 14 weeks when combined with them receiving advice on reducing their calorie intake, compared with 3.9 kilograms among those who only received the advice
27 January 2023
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends intensive interventions to manage weight loss, including drugs and surgery – but it’s unclear whether they will reduce childhood obesity
10 October 2022
Captive macaques with a higher social rank tend to get more overweight, even though they don’t appear to consume more calories
7 October 2022
Smoking and our body mass index - whether underweight, overweight or obese - may be involved in the onset of everything from heart failure and hernias to sleep apnoea and nail disorders
14 September 2022
Photos taken by astronauts on the International Space Station show that streetlights are getting gradually more blue-tinged in many countries in Europe as they switch to energy-efficient LEDs
27 April 2021
A large number of people did less exercise through lockdown and never increased it back to normal levels, with potentially long-term repercussions for physical and mental health
23 October 2020
Animal studies suggest the metabolic conditions linked to obesity could be treated by using CRISPR gene editing to turn normal fat into heat-producing beige fat
1 May 2020
We tend to overestimate our height and underestimate our weight to fit society’s ideals, or because we think we're still the same as our younger selves