Weight gain: Putting on the pounds can prolong your life as you get older - The body mass index (BMI) is one of the crudest measurements of our health and longevity. It’s been found wanting in many a study, and researchers at...

BMI: The great red herring for heart health - Body mass index (BMI) is a clumsy and imprecise measure of obesity. It’s arrived at through a complicated computation, which involves dividing your w...

Type ii diabetes - It's the diet, stupid - Type II diabetes has become the lifestyle disease of modern times. The two main risk factors according to doctors are being seriously overweight, as...

Longevity - Extending life naturally - Given perfect conditions, human beings are thought to be capable of living a healthy 125 years. Indeed, the oldest recorded human being was a French w...

Heart attack - Find out if you’re at risk - Want to know if you’re at risk from a heart attack? Forget the BMI (body mass index), a measure based on your height and weight and, instead, use your...

Are the seeds planted when you're very young? - Is one body type more likely to develop breast cancer than another? In other words can we just look at a woman to assess her risk? Doctors believe t...

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An ageing market: - Half of all drugs are for the elderly - More half of all drug prescriptions written in the UK every year are for patients who are aged over 65, a What Doctors Don't Tell You report has disco...