Tense, aching muscles are an all too common side-effect of the daily grind. A soothing, relaxing massage sounds like just the thing to smooth away those pent-up tensions.
Yet for most people in busy offices and …

Assessment for weight loss surgery – such as gastric bypass or gastric banding – has to ask whether patients are committed to a healthier way of life, insists David Ashton.
Some 60 per cent of the …

The gastric bandits: How women risk weight-loss surgery abroad because they’re not fat enough to have it here.
Jilly Trela and I first met in a Bristol tea room. The Victoria sponge looked quite tempting and …

Fern Britton is to appear on the BBC’s Question Time.
The popular TV host – who has recently slimmed down after being at the centre of a row when it was disclosed she’d had a gastric …

A new healthy living campaign aimed at tackling Britain’s soaring obesity rates has been officially launched by the Government.  The way we live in modern society means a lot of us, especially our kids, have …

Stomach surgery to tackle obesity jumped 40% in England last year in bad news about the state of the nation’s health and bulging waistline.
Operations to reduce stomach size such as stomach stapling and gastric by-passes …

Television presenter Fern Britton has caused controversy after it was revealed that her recent weight loss followed a gastric band operation, and was not simply down to dieting and exercise.
But how does a gastric band …

A reduction in the time people spend asleep could partly account for soaring obesity rates, a study has revealed.
Researchers at the University of Bristol have found that hormonal changes caused by lack of sleep could …

SUZANNE Gregory cuddles the £8,000 baby she thought she would never have – after weight-loss surgery cured her of infertility.
The 36-year-old, from Bradwell, near Sheffield, who tipped the scales at 19 stone, was told by …

The Duodenal Switch procedure generates weight loss by restricting the amount of food that can be eaten (due to the removal of part of the stomach – vertical gastrectomy) and by limiting the amount of …

An inability to reduce her weight of almost 16st without immediately putting the pounds back on led Anne Diamond to seek bariatric surgery “as a last resort”.
The former television presenter, now patron of the National …

TV presenters Fern Britton and Anne Diamond have both admitted having surgery to help them lose weight and the NHS is now carrying out more of the operations than ever before.
A variety of methods, known …