Angry medical professionals have hit out at the manufacturers of a new diet patch.

The National Obesity Forum, which lists doctors, nurses and dieticians among its members, have branded the marketing strategy for The Pink Patch ‘dangerous’.

Now, if you have not seen the new adverts, I’ll be surprised. They seem to be all over the internet at the moment.

We had no idea fashion journalism was such a difficult job.

Not only do you have to travel around the world and hang out with supermodels, apparently you have to be as thin as them to. Or, at least, that’s how Hollywood sees it.

Why else would they take one of their thinnest stars and virtually make her starve herself just to play the role of a magazine hack?

Women in Britain drink so much they have developed a new type of body shape - appropriately called the wineglass.

That’s according to a leading dietician in the UK, who says the growth of women such as Welsh songbird (or should that be thrush?) Charlotte Church with large upper bodies and thin lower halves is down to a lot of exercise but too much boozing.

But before women in the UK all start to give themselves a pat on the back for inventing something new, let’s just say health and diet experts do not share your enthusiasm.

Who said men could not careless about how their bodies look?

In fact, according to the most predictable health and diet survey since yesterday, men are just as keen as women to get rid of their flabby arms and stomachs as women.

Or at least in the UK they are. Not that we are saying other men around the world are not interested in shedding the pounds. No way!!

Life’s big decisions are best taken on a full stomach, while skipping meals makes you careless, a new study suggests.

According to a recent study from Cambridge boffins, skipping meals will lead to a reduced level of Serotonin in your brain.

A High Court has told sacked air hostesses that Air India was right to fire them for being too fat.

Five Air India employees had taken their case to High Court after Air India had suspended staff who weighed more than 3kg over their maximum weight allowance.

Scouser, Keith Sorrell, says he’s eaten nothing but the chocolatey goodness of Mars bars every day for the last 17 years of working, resting and playing. So far, he’s not dead.

Keith, 37, who is only 14 stone despite consuming around 3,500 calories of chocolate each day, says his addiction began as a school kid.

“All my pocket money went on them and one day I realised I couldn’t get by without them.

“Now I can easily polish off 12 a day, more at weekends. I’m totally addicted.”

She’s not the first girl to lose the deadweight bloke followed by the actual weight, and she’s definitely not the last celeb to launch her new look just as the paps are circling the bones of a relationship. But how has Kym Marsh done it?

She may spell her name like a teenage girl, but lovely raven-haired Kym is 31 and a mum of two. So it’s good to know she’s been sensible and hasn’t opted for the standard break-up enema of late night boozing and piles of Marlboro Lights.

Fancy munching on a plate of locusts? Or even a maggot salad?

No? Ok, how about some wasps and rice?

Doesn’t exactly tickle the taste buds, does it? But such a diet could well be the solution to the growing world food crisis.

As the host of a daytime TV show and something called Soapstar Superstar, Fern Britton’s integrity is as beyond reproach as most high-level politicians and the clergy.

Sadly, though, that theory has been shot to pieces by the recent revelation that Fern Britton’s drastic sudden weight-loss wasn’t because she started eating healthily or riding her bike around like she told everyone, but because she’s had a dirty great gastric band fitted down her gut-hole.

One of the world’s most popular soft drinks, Coca-Cola, is to get rid of sodium benzoate, an additive found in their products.

The controversial chemical is thought to contribute towards hyperactivity and damage of DNA.

The company plan to withdraw it from their Diet Coke drinks in August 2008, with other products soon to follow.