As part of Trust Me, I'm a Doctor, health expert and presenter Michael Mosley gives you compelling answers and top advice on a range of health issues in this short video.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
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Courses tagged with "obesity"
The real thing or the right thing? How should companies like Coca Cola respond to public concern about obesity?
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
This free course, Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?, explores the extent to which a person's 'lifestyle' impacts on their health and wellbeing. It also examines how non-lifestyle related factors – in particular social, economic,
cultural and political dimensions – influence a person's health.
cultural and political dimensions – influence a person's health.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
If you're finding your new diet frustrating because you can't make the calories add up, you're not alone. Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley investigate why the calorie might be broken.
Category: Health
Alan Partridge's trick of taking an extra-large plate to an all-you-can-eat buffet might be putting his long term health at risk. New research links tableware size with the tendency to eat too much.
Category: Health
How powerful is pester power? Do children really influence what food and products their parents will buy?
Category: Health
Community member Lyndon raised a question about the causes of childhood obesity
Category: Health
Young people in the UK chug their way through more energy drinks that anywhere else in Europe. Amelia Lake and Shelina Visram ask if it's time to take action.
Category: Young People's Health
UK rules that ban marketing of junk foods to children and young people are weak. So where do kids see junk food marketing online? Let's find out...
Category: Young People's Health
Beware the junk food marketer with their hashtags, games and sponsored tweets! Here are the top 5 things junk food marketers know about your child.
Category: Young People's Health
Find out more about how to improve your health and that of your family.
Category: Public Health
The following video explores the concepts covered in this course.
Category: Education & Development
What can we actually learn from history - besides history itself? Does the story of overcoming cholera, for example have lessons for today?
Category: History
How can companies stay profitable in a changing marketplace? Professor Susan Segal-Horn illustrates using chocolate and chewing gum as examples.
Category: Business Strategy & Studies
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 how much they exercise?
Category: Biology
Join the discussion: Is there a 'gene for autism', or an 'obesity gene'?
Category: Biology
Diabetes is an increasing problem among both adults and children. This free course, Diabetes complications, looks at the way the condition is managed once it has been diagnosed in order to reduce the risk of further complications. You will look at the role of each member of the team involved in the diabetes annual review and look at the risk factors involved with certain diabetes complications.
Category: Biology
Idiopatic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH), is a rare disease prevalent in obese women of child-bearing age; this article explores The Open University's research into the disease.
Category: Across the Sciences
The Faculty of Social Science's Troy Cooper explores how attitudes to obesity in women have changed over the decades
Category: Society, Politics & Law
Who are the gluttons, the obese or the advertisers who make chocolate so sexy and irresistible?
Category: Sociology