Following on from last week’s blog about central and visceral fat, it feels right to look more closely at fatty liver and why it matters. Most of us think of liver disease as something caused by alcohol. That is understandable. Alcohol can damage the liver, and for many years it dominated the public conversation. But there is another form of liver disease that is now extremely common. It is linked less to alcohol and more to the way modern life affects our metabolism, through

I say this as a GP, but also as a man who has had to deal with it. Central weight can creep on quietly. It can happen during busy years, stressful years, family years, working years, or simply because habits change and the body changes with them.

By Dr Mick Watts MBBS MRCGP (Dr Mick Watts is a GP in Windsor with a particular interest in men’s health, healthy ageing and lifestyle medicine.) My aim with these blogs is to explore men’s health in a way that is useful not only to men, but also to the people who live with them, love them, work with them and care for them. The way men respond to health and wellbeing is often shaped by our maleness. Not just by biology, but by the expectations we absorb from childhood onwards

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