The problem, as famed geneticist, author, and Cambridge Professor Giles Yeo tells it, is that not all calories are created equal. "Put simply, we eat food, we don't eat calories," he says.

“One of the important things we’ve learned is that obesity is a brain condition, for lack of a better term,” Giles Yeo, a world-renowned geneticist at the University of Cambridge and a ...

New research reveals obese humans and Labradors may share the same gene variant - DENND1B - that causes them to overeat. The ...

In the run up to The World Without Disease summit on 21st June, Prof Giles Yeo gives us as a taste of his keynote presentation and how genetics can impact the science of body weight ...

While you will hear of countless different diets all promoting their own way to lose weight ( you can read about the diet experts believe is the 'world's healthiest' here), Prof Giles Yeo says ...

“Most of the food we eat is processed,” says Dr Giles Yeo, an obesity expert at Cambridge University. Cooking is a process; fermentation is a process. “Ultra-processed foods however are a ...

But how easy is it to go vegan and stay healthy? To find out, Dr Giles Yeo went vegan for a month. We asked Dr Duane Mellor from Coventry University, a dietitian and senior lecturer in human ...

The saying dogs take after their owners may be truer than we thought. Dogs and humans have been discovered to share genes that are responsible ...

“We now know that targeting the brain is a good way of actually tackling obesity,” says Giles Yeo, a molecular geneticist and professor of neuroscience at Cambridge University. Professor Yeo ...

Dr Giles Yeo contributes to the #Co90sDiscoveries series and explains why tackling the global obesity crisis requires genetic understanding, not moral judgements. Are our genes intrinsically linked to ...