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Your body fat may be protecting you against infections

29 December 2017

Fat isn’t all bad – it stores powerful immune cells, and seems to boost their ability to defend the body from dangerous infections

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The appetite genes: Why some of us are born to eat too much

31 May 2017

Subtle differences in how we respond to food, driven by our genes, are the true reason we can struggle to keep to the weight we want to be

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