Children who drink whole fat milk are 40% less likely to be overweight

Why you SHOULD drink whole milk: Children who drink full fat are 40% less likely to be overweight ‘because it makes them feel fuller than semi-skimmed’ Canadian researchers reviewed more than two dozen studies on cow’s milk The results, published in a medical journal, involved data from 21,000 children None of the studies showed drinking … Read more

Being fat triggers a ‘troublesome’ immune response to Covid-19, scientists fear as SAGE investigates

Being fat triggers a ‘troublesome’ immune response to COVID-19, scientists fear, as the government SAGE committee investigates why obesity raises the risk of death.   Scientists advising Government ministers are exploring potential underlying mechanisms that cause severe illness in obese people. According to data from intensive care units, people of a healthy weight make up a … Read more

Wearing a 24lbs weighed vest all day can help obese people shed excess fat

Wearing a 24lbs weighed vest all day may be MORE effective than exercise for obese people trying to lose weight ‘because it makes the brain believe the body is heavier than it actually is’ Study participants were all obese with a BMI of between 30 and 35  They wore a 24lb weighted vest for 8 hours … Read more

Controversial chef Pete Evans enjoys a breakfast consisting of ‘three big slabs of pork fat’

Chewing the fat! Controversial chef Pete Evans enjoys an off-putting breakfast consisting of ‘three big slabs of pork fat’ left over from his roast dinner the night before By Demeter Stamell For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:40 BST, 30 April 2020 | Updated: 05:40 BST, 30 April 2020 Pete Evans shared a photo of his … Read more

Furloughing fat cat bosses pocketed over £300m in five years

Chief executives at 18 FTSE 100 listed companies furloughing thousands of staff raked in over £300million, or over £3million each, in pay and rewards since 2015, new findings from the High Pay Centre claim. There are mounting calls for super-rich fat cat executives to play a bigger part in shouldering the financial burden stemming from … Read more

Fat cat bosses lap up £100,000 perks as expenses are all covered

Fat cat bosses at some of Britain’s biggest companies are raking in hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of perks on top of their multi-million pay packages, a Mail on Sunday investigation has found. FTSE 100 chiefs are enjoying what critics call ‘completely gratuitous’ payments to cover private aircraft use, school fees, family travel, chauffeur-driven cars … Read more

Alison Steadman admits she never watches herself on TV because she thinks she looks ‘old and fat’

‘I don’t watch because I think I look old and fat’: Alison Steadman admits she never watches herself on TV but made an exception for the Gavin & Stacey Christmas Special By Sean O’grady For Mailonline Published: 15:57 BST, 22 April 2020 | Updated: 16:01 BST, 22 April 2020 Alison Steadman has revealed she never … Read more

Investors tell Royal Mail to tame fat cat pay after dividend was cut

Now investors tell Royal Mail to tame fat cat pay after dividend was cut with ‘pain to be shared by management’ By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 23:11 BST, 21 April 2020 | Updated: 23:14 BST, 21 April 2020 Top investors are calling on Royal Mail to slash fat cat pay after it … Read more

They’ll slash your savings rates… but how many building society fat cats will cut THEIR pay?

For nearly 250 years, building societies have played an important part in maintaining the financial fabric of communities up and down the country. Providing loans for home buyers and a safe place for savers to squirrel away their hard-earned cash. Although their numbers have shrunk dramatically over the years, the stoic 43 that remain continue … Read more

Children that play lots of video games are more likely to be fat teenagers, study finds

Five-year-olds playing three or more hours of video games a day are MORE likely to be overweight as teenagers – and late nights and sugary drinks are also to blame, study claims Study of more than 16,000 children looked at what influenced weight gain    Found those that play lots of  video games are more likely … Read more