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What’s the right diet for you? A BBC Horizon experiment

General Research

Oxford researchers lead unique BBC experiment investigating tailoring diets for weight loss

Left to right: Susan Jebb, Fiona Gribble, Paul Aveyard, Chris Van Tulleken, Tanya Byron and Giles Yeo. © BBC
Left to right: Susan Jebb, Fiona Gribble, Paul Aveyard, Chris Van Tulleken, Tanya Byron and Giles Yeo.

In a 3-part Horizon special, BBC Science, together with Britain’s leading obesity researchers, will investigate three different causes of overeating and how a weight loss programme tailored to each of these causes can help people to lose weight. 

In Britain today 11 million people are on a diet - yet the vast majority of them will fail to control their weight in the long term.

Read more (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences website)

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