Eating is a complex behaviour and like all complex behaviour it has biological underpinnings.
- Dr Giles Yeo
Why are some people severely obese? According to Dr Yeo, Director of Genomics/Transcriptomics in the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, it is all to do with the brain. “The more we find out about obesity the more we begin to realise that whenever you deal with obesity it invariably comes down to food intake and you invariably end up in the brain,” he says.
Dr Yeo will be presenting a BBC Horizon programme in June/July 2016 on the science of obesity and how biology dictates that some people just feel hungrier than others. It will cover the latest research in epigenetics, particularly drugs which change the gut hormone profile and trick the stomach into reacting as if it has had bariatric surgery without people having to actually go through it.
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Image: Visitors sitting outside the British Museum in London including an obese man
Credit: Wikipedia
Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge
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