According to a study carried out by green travel charity Sustrans, 56% of people asked believed that cycling in urban areas was not safe. Only 20% of those questioned said that they regularly cycled in built-up areas. 54% believed that they would be more likely to do so if drivers were more careful and 46% read more »

Health experts at the National Obesity Forum have warned that now is the time to tell your loved ones if they are carrying a little too much weight. With the evidence piling up as fast as the chocolate wrappings, the message this Christmas is simple: face the flab. Abdominal fat is increasingly thought to be strongly linked read more »

Occasionally we can be too busy, or too hungry to take our time over our food. But could our bad table habits be contributing to the nation’s weight gain? Europe’s so-called ‘flab lab’ is a technologically advanced, hi-tech unit used to research obesity. It’s official name is a ‘whole body calorimeter’, and scientists at the read more »

The average family-sized car is over a foot wider and almost double the weight of cars built 50 years ago. Manufacturers are struggling to keep up with the constantly changing shape of the human race. A number of luxury car makers have begun to prepare for a plus-sized nation of drivers with a new generation read more »