Gastro intestial signals are involved in appetite regulation and a cornerstone in the curative effects of bariatric surgery in the treatment of type 2 diabetes.

Mapping of the signals, receptors and mechanisms responsible for these effects. 

New drugs for the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Refined and new food products. 

New regimens for preventing and treating life style-related diseases by refined and differentiated recommendations for physical activity as well as by food products and diet recommendations. 

Socially and ethically robust preventive policy measures and regulation and new social psychological methods for reducing overweight. 

A better informed basis for stopping the obesity epidemic 

Physical activity ’burns off calories’, but also improves  insulin sensitivity and affects substrate oxidation . The cellular and molecular mechanisms are only partly understood.

Molecular mechanisms behind effects of physical activity.

Platform for refined recommendations for physical activity. 

It is known that most strategies employed to make people change behaviour have little or no impact. More needs to be known about why people act as they do and which interventions they respond to.

New platforms for optimizing public and private regulations taking ethical issues into account.

Knowledge about influences on everyday health related habits and about the effect of social psychological and mind-affecting methods for reducing overweight. 

Genes and environment both contribute to obesity, but how they interact is largely unknown. 

Information about how the genes and environment have interacted in the development of the obesity epidemic.