Lifestyle, obesity and cardio-metabolic disease

Cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity are, to a large extent, diseases of 'lifestyle', in that how active we are and what we eat over our life-course markedly influences our risk of developing these conditions.  Lifestyle interventions also provide the cornerstone to the management of obesity and cardio-metabolic disease.

We are interested in understanding the mechanics by which activity and diet modulate disease risk and progression; novel lifestyle interventions for risk reduction and disease management; how maternal obesity impacts on pregnancy outcome and offspring health; and how lifestyle, genetic background and early life events interact to modulate disease risk.

Please click the links below for more details about the work we do:

• Genetic background, lifestyle and disease risk
• Exercise and postprandial metabolism
• Exercise, diet, energy balance and obesity
• Obesity-related disease and effect of weight loss
• Obesity, lifestyle and pregnancy