The idea that you can be fat and fit is looking increasingly shaky. A new study of 3.5m people recently found that obese people who are metabolically healthy are still at much higher risk of a range of cardiovascular diseases compared with similarly healthy people with less weight. While study author Rishi Caleyachetty says it’s an important debate to have, he argues that the evidence suggests being obese is not a benign condition.

It’s a decade since the 2007-08 financial crisis first became real to many Britons – with the run on high street bank Northern Rock. Alex Mandilaras provides six charts that show how the global economy was shaken by the crisis and how different major countries dealt with its fallout.

The human brain is a marvel. Lorenzo Fabrizi and Tomoki Arichi have now identified a little-studied area of the brain responsible for structuring it at the beginning of life so it is prepared for the world outside. Towards the end of life, diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer’s can make short work of a lifetime of learning as the brain’s structures come unstuck. As this affects a growing number of us in an ageing society perhaps, as Peter Kevern argues, we need to change how we view ourselves.

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