Does HRT cause weight gain?
The trial evidence on HRT and weight is unusually clear. The confusion comes from something else happening at the same time.
Protein timing: does it matter when you eat it?
The total is what counts. Everything after that is a refinement with far less evidence behind it than the internet suggests.
NEAT: the calories you burn without calling it exercise
Fidgeting, standing, pacing, carrying things upstairs. It adds up to more than your gym sessions, and it drops without you noticing the moment you start dieting.
Weight and mental health: the loop that runs both ways
Depression makes weight gain more likely. Weight gain makes depression more likely. Neither fact tells you which one started it, and that matters more than it sounds.
Weight loss supplements: what the evidence actually shows
No supplement sold in the UK has evidence of clinically meaningful weight loss. Several have evidence of liver injury.
Fifteen weight loss myths, and what replaced them
Several of these were true when they were written. A few were never true. Two changed in the last eighteen months.
Weight loss and cholesterol: what actually moves
The part of your cholesterol panel that responds best to weight loss is not the part most people are watching.
Weight loss and blood pressure: about 1 mmHg per kilogram
One of the few places in medicine where a rule of thumb survives contact with the meta-analysis.
Weight and knee pain: four kilos of load per kilo lost
The number everyone quotes is about load per step, not about your body weight. The real version is more impressive.
Weight and fertility: what the evidence supports, and what it doesn’t
Some of what people are told about weight and conception is true. Some of it is needlessly frightening and not supported.