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Bioscience behind tackling obesity

April 2007

Including:

Genetic and early life factors: prenatal nutrition, and monitoring what young people eat
The role of fat tissue itself: obesity and inflammation, and can diet help?
Hunger, dieting and exercise: sending messages to the brain, ghrelin: a hormone that makes slimming difficult, screening the next generation of slimming products, exercise and weight loss (and gain!), and the role of sedentary lifestyle
Eating and pleasure: pleasure can overide the ‘off switch’, and supressing our interest in food
Public attitudes to diet and health research
Working with industry

Tracey Duncombe
tracey.duncombe@bbsrc.ac.uk
tel: 01793 414695
fax: 01793 413382