Health and Social Care Committee
19 May 2026
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Committee House of Commons
00:04 - 00:30
Speaker 1
Welcome to the session of the health and social care select committee. Today is our seventh session in the food and weight management inquiry that we've been undertaking, and we will be looking particularly at, diabetes, and also bariatric surgery in, panel two. So without further ado, can I please ask our witnesses to, please introduce themselves and their organizations? Can I start Professor Roy Taylor?
00:31 - 01:17
Speaker 3
Thank you. I'm Roy Taylor. In my consultant physician career, I dealt with acute medicine as well as diabetes and medicine in pregnancy. But all the way through, my main research thrust has been understanding what happens to food inside the body, how it's handled in health, during exercise, but of course in disease. And from my clinical point of view, the main disease was diabetes.
That led to suddenly realising we had the cause of type two diabetes at our fingertips. To test that, I needed to develop an effective way of getting people to lose about 15 kilograms in weight using diet, and that has led to the whole, services studies and the remission programme.
01:17 - 01:19
Lovely. Thank you very much for being with us.
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