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By Troy Cooper (The Open University)

08 February 2012

The Faculty of Social Science's Troy Cooper explores how attitudes to obesity in women have changed over the decades Read more : Obesity over time

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By Dr Rosa Hoekstra (The Open University), Dr Mark Hirst (The Open University)

24 March 2011

Join the discussion: Is there a 'gene for autism', or an 'obesity gene'? Read more : Unzip your genes - Debate specific gene disorders

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By Dr Rosa Hoekstra (The Open University), Dr Mark Hirst (The Open University)

24 March 2011

Join the discussion: How do we know that genes influence how much weight we gain, surely people differ in how much food they eat and... Read more : Unzip your genes - Debate the genetic influence on body weight

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OU on the BBC: Inside The Ethics Committee 2010 - Obesity surgeryBy Tacit Requiem via Flickr under Creative Commons licence

By The Ethics Committee web team (The Open University)

03 August 2010

Episode 3: An NHS surgeon is treating more and more obese patients whose private treatment has gone wrong. What should he do? Read more : OU on the BBC: Inside The Ethics Committee 2010 - Obesity surgery

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By The Ethics Committee web team (The Open University)

20 July 2010

A panel of experts discuss real-life cases to explore the workings of clinical ethics committees in Inside the Ethics Committee Read more : OU on the BBC: Inside the Ethics Committee 2010

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By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

26 October 2009

Community member Lyndon raised a question about the causes of childhood obesity Read more : Debate: Childhood obesity

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Breaking Science: HIV and superstitions Featuring: audio, photos.com

By The Naked Scientists (Guest)

06 October 2008

The latest research on the origin of the HIV virus, how superstitions are formed and why we think everything radioactive glows in the dark Read more : Breaking Science: HIV and superstitions

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By Dr Stuart Mitchell (The Open University)

05 March 2008

What can we actually learn from history - besides history itself? Does the story of overcoming cholera, for example have lessons for today? Read more : History lessons: Part 2

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By Professor Susan Segal-Horn (The Open University)

24 May 2007

How can companies stay profitable in a changing marketplace? Professor Susan Segal-Horn illustrates using chocolate and chewing gum as examples. Read more : Changing consumer tastes provoke a big gum war

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By Dr Terry O'Sullivan (The Open University)

27 February 2007

How powerful is pester power? Do children really influence what food and products their parents will buy? Read more : Pester power

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Pages tagged as Obesity

Obesity over timeCreative Commons Image This file is licensed under Creative Commons ShareAlike 1.0 License

Unzip your genes - Debate specific gene disordersCopyrighted Image Jupiter Images

Unzip your genes - Debate the genetic influence on body weightCopyrighted Image Jupiter Images

OU on the BBC: Inside The Ethics Committee 2010 - Obesity surgeryBy Tacit Requiem via Flickr under Creative Commons licence

OU on the BBC: Inside the Ethics Committee 2010By Alex E. Proimos via Flickr under Creative Commons licence

Debate: Childhood obesityJupiter Images

Breaking Science: HIV and superstitions Featuring: audio, photos.com

History lessons: Part 2Creative Commons Image k8lane under CC-BY-NC-SA licence

Changing consumer tastes provoke a big gum warCreative Commons Image eschipul under CC-BY-SA licence

Pester powerCopyrighted Image The Open University / Karen Parker