Weight loss has become a major goal (and news item!) for celebrities in recent years. Generally it is so that they look better in an industry which expects it and where weight gain could limit work opportunities or even end careers prematurely. But who are they, how did they try to do it and how successful was it?

This blog answers those questions for just a few of the more prominent celebrities that we see on our screens nowadays.

Weight-loss (or slimming) drugs have gained a significant amount of attention recently in the UK (partly because of an ex-Prime Minister!) and elsewhere. So I thought it was a good time to undertake a brief review of these often-named “wonder” drugs using evidence sourced largely from medical literature.

It includes a short history of weight-loss drugs before focusing on key details of the ones that have caused a bit of a recent stir – including reported cost and side effects.

This blog is a personal record of my wife’s Chronic Kidney Disease with a solitary kidney. As a scientific researcher for >50 years, I’ve investigated and monitored it from that standpoint alongside my son, Oliver.

It includes key causes of CKD along with potential difference(s) associated with one kidney. Related management and potential, further improvement via nutritional therapy are outlined.