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Having had an interest in science from a young age, Prof Steve Bloom could have ended up as a physicist, psychiatrist or a chemist. Now he has found a way to bring all three disciplines together to tackle what he describes as the greatest killer of the modern day: obesity.
"The obesity pandemic is the biggest disease that has hit mankind ever in terms [of] numbers. It is killing more people than anything else has ever killed – probably the second world war is not to be counted, but in terms of disease [there are] more deaths from obesity than anything we have known about," he says.
Bloom was knighted in the 2012 new year's honours for his work on understanding and combating obesity and he and his team are currently working to bring two methods of appetite control to the market within the next decade – one an "intelligent microchip", which can send signals to the brain to stop the urge to eat, and the other a treatment that combines two hormones to reduce appetite.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/sep/07/scientist-techniques-combat-obesity-innovators
"The obesity pandemic is the biggest disease that has hit mankind ever in terms [of] numbers. It is killing more people than anything else has ever killed – probably the second world war is not to be counted, but in terms of disease [there are] more deaths from obesity than anything we have known about," he says.
Bloom was knighted in the 2012 new year's honours for his work on understanding and combating obesity and he and his team are currently working to bring two methods of appetite control to the market within the next decade – one an "intelligent microchip", which can send signals to the brain to stop the urge to eat, and the other a treatment that combines two hormones to reduce appetite.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/sep/07/scientist-techniques-combat-obesity-innovators