Obesity and Food Choice

Obesity has a strong genetic determinant, and as a result we are differentially equipped to deal with the modern food environment. Dealing with this problem requires that we overcome the genetic weakness inherent in susceptible people.

This requires that we understand and exploit the satiating properties of certain food components better and learn how to influence hardwired behaviours.

• Theme Lead Professor Lora Heisler - Mechanisms underlying the pathophysiology of obesity and type 2 diabetes 
   
• Emeritus Dr Clare Adam - Programming of energy balance regulation and control of satiety
• Emeritus Dr Perry Barrett - Molecular mechanisms in body weight regulation
• Dr Antonio Gonzalez - Brain networks responsible for regulation of body metabolism
• Professor Alex Johnstone - Appetite across the lifecourse
• Professor Julian Mercer - Dietary behaviour and molecular mechanisms
• Professor Peter Morgan - Neurobiology of energy balance
• Dr Fabien Naneix - Developmental aspects of normal and pathological food-related behaviours
• Dr Alexander Ross - Food-Gut-Brain: control of satiety and weight management
• Dr Sergiy Sylantyev - Neural mechanisms of diabetes, food choice, nutrition and taste perception
• Emeritus Professor Lynda Williams - Hormone-nutrient interactions in energy balance

Some of the scientific themes covered within the Obesity and Metabolic Health research programme fall into an area of science known as neuroendocrinology, and thus reflect the interplay between the endocrine and nervous systems, and the control of vital physiological functions.