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Social workers took son into care because mum wouldn’t feed him junk

This is a horrifying story, which will send shivers down the spines of loving, law abiding parents… Zak was a fairly typical two year old – more interested in the world around him than in getting food inside him (my niece is the same). The caring parents took him to their doctor for some advice [...]

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Wales to get two new teams to tackle eating disorders – Western Mail

Well done Edwina Hart, Health Minister for Wales, for announcing a team in South Wales and one in North Wales to help with eating disorders. £500,000 has been set aside this year to develop the service and this will rise to £1m each year to keep the initiative going. This is a really important development [...]

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We’ll pay you to lose weight.

Daily Mail. November 11, 2008: “We’ll pay the obese to take a walk.” News of the World. April 12, 2009: “Lards of Money: NHS paying fatties £425 to lose weight.” Daily Mail. July 3, 2009: “Lose weight and we’ll give you £1 for every pound.” (Don’t you just love the NOTW headline!) This story just [...]

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70,000 lives a year ‘could be saved by a healthier diet’

This was a report by Daniel Martin (political reporter) following a cabinet office study called “Food: An analysis of the issues”. The report concluded “there can be few areas of public policy where the positive benefits to lives, health and wellbeing are potentially as dramatic as they could be in diet and nutrition.” “The potential [...]

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Obesity: Deadlier than smoking

A verbatim extract from the article: The foresight report, written by 250 leading scientists, says Britain’s obesity crisis is so severe that it would take at least 30 years to reverse. If current trends continue, by 2050 about 60 per cent of men, 50 per cent of women and 25 per cent of children in [...]

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