Research Psychologist, Health Behaviour Research Centre, UCL
My main research interests are obesity and weight loss in the general population, with a focus on psychological and physiological correlates and consequences.
For my current research I use data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), a large population-based cohort of middle-aged and older adults (age 50+) living in England, with rich data on health and wellbeing and objective measures of anthropometry.
Chronic stress could be making you fat
Mar 02, 2017 02:22 am UTC| Health
The world is getting fatter and its making us sicker. But could rising stress levels be playing an important role in our growing waistlines? Obesity is now one of the leading causes of death worldwide and is associated...
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