Around 60 per cent of British adults are overweight and research suggests that the cause may not be overeating or lack of exercise- but sleep deprivation. The survey discovered that people who sleep for significantly less than seven hours a night often end up being obese.

Most morbidly obese individuals would live longer if they had weight loss surgery, a new study has suggested. Researchers found that weight loss surgery can extend the lives of obese men and women and can also help prevent heart attacks, strokes and type two diabetes. The evidence suggests that dietary and pharmacological treatments frequently do not result in meaningful weight loss for morbidly obese individuals.

The fat busting drug Reductil has been banned in Europe over fears of it possibly threatening the health of the overweight and obese. The European Medicines Agency has suspended the license on Reductil that has been linked to deaths in the UK.