BMC Obesity - new open access journal

BMC Obesity (from BioMed Central) has recently been launched.  It is an open access, peer-reviewed journal concentrating on all aspects of human obesity across the lifecourse.  It is broadly scoped and mulidisciplinary and includes articles on the prevention, causes, treatment, management, and implications of obesity, incorporating lifestyle, epidemiology, policy and community/environmental interventions, related approaches for weight loss and the prevention of weight gain, management of the condition including the use of drugs and surgery, and basic science relating to the causes and effects of obesity.