KISS away your obsession to lose weight (Anorexia)!

Professor Janet Treasure, of King's College London Institute of Psychiatry and senior author for both studies said: 'Patients with anorexia have a range of social difficulties which often start in their early teenage years, before the onset of the illness.

'These social problems, which can result in isolation, may be important in understanding both the onset and maintenance of anorexia.

'By using oxytocin as a potential treatment for anorexia, we are focusing on some of these underlying problems we see in patients.'