The UK National Sizing Survey has revealed that women’s body shapes have changed dramatically in the last fifty years. In the 1950s the average British woman’s figure was petite: the average height was a dinky 5ft 2in, and women rarely weighed over 9st 10lb. Even women’s  feet were smaller at size 3 1/2. The average [...]

Scientists are creating an anti-obesity pill that could reduce the fat of overweight people by almost a half in just a week, the Daily Mail reported today. Tests on lab-mice have shown that the new drug could decrease body weight by a quarter and their fat content by 42 per cent after seven days. After [...]