Billionaires in space, an end-date for deforestation, facing up to racial bias in healthcare – we asked scientists to share the most important developments of 2021Space made the headlines on many occasions in 2021: the landing of Nasa’s Perseverance ro…
One in 10 in UK will have diabetes by 2030, charity predicts
Diabetes UK says UK faces a public health emergency unless urgent action is takenAlmost one in 10 people in the UK will have diabetes by 2030 amid alarming levels of obesity, according to a report.About 90% of diabetes patients have type 2, a condition…
Habitual is using digital support plus food replacement to help reverse type 2 diabetes
London-based Habitual, a healthtech startup which offers a weight loss program aimed at people with type 2 diabetes (or prediabetes) that combines “evidence-based” food replacement with digital support to help people manage and even reverse the condition (so they can be medication free), has closed a $2.3 million seed round. The round was led by […]
Small farmers have the answer to feeding the world. Why isn’t the UN listening? | Elizabeth Mpofu and Henk Hobbelink
We’re among the thousands boycotting the UN food summit – it’s been hijacked by corporate interests while the voices of small-scale farmers go unheardThursday’s UN food summit proposes to help solve the world’s nutrition crisis, with 800 million people…
The science of obesity was derailed by one experiment
“We argue that the reason so little progress has been made against obesity and type 2 diabetes is because the field has been laboring, quite literally, in the sense intended by philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn, under the wrong paradigm. This energy-i…
Diabetes ‘wakeup call’ as 1,500 children in England have type 2
Charity says government must do more to tackle childhood obesity with one in three now overweightHundreds of children and teenagers in England have type 2 diabetes, data shows, leading charities to describe the findings as a “worrying wakeup call” and …