GPs should tell tubby Brits to stop eating food to help them break a lifetime of bad habits, say Oxford experts. With two in three too fat, they want more family doctors to offer extreme low-calorie meal-replacement diets to patients. They claim it is the best way to reset overweight adults’ unhealthy relationship with food. […]
BRITAIN’S best-known bachelor Hugh Grant finally ties the knot — as he gets hitched to a Swedish television producer at 57 years old. After a career playing a string of commitment-phobic characters in films including Four Weddings and a Funeral and About a Boy, the actor married 39-year-old Anna Eberstein. They swapped vows in a […]
ONE in four Brits would object to a fat person marrying their daughter, research shows. A study of 90,000 people across nine countries found the UK was one of the most intolerant when it comes to obesity. It found Brits are a quarter less likely than Americans to talk to those with weight problems or […]
OBESE staff should be allowed to commute an hour later to avoid anxiety in the rush-hour, says a Government adviser. Bosses should offer them flexible starts if they struggle on public transport or let them work from home. Professor Stephen Bevan told the European Congress on Obesity that firms should make more accommodations for overweight […]
TORY EU rebels are to bring forward their major Brexit showdown with Theresa May to next month by forcing a fresh vote to stay in the customs union. Instead of acting when a deal with Brussels is done in the Autumn, they have decided the best time to try to enforce a soft Brexit is […]