Author, obesity researcher .

England’s Obesity Strategy (not)

On Thursday 13 October, 2011, the Department of Health issued this press release, optimistically called “Government calls time on obesity.”  The government has done anything but. We need to remember that the UK health service was devolved in 1999, with England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland managed separately from this point forth. Hence, this Department [...]

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Red meat & cancer & very bad journalism

I am struggling to think of a diet & health story, which has been reported worse than the one dominating the press this week – and there tends to be at least one in the press every day. The newspapers seem to think that “artery-clogging” is an adjective to precede either, or both, of the [...]

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The White Paper on Public Health (Andrew Lansley)

The long awaited White Paper on public health has been published (30/11/2010). As someone working exclusively in the field of obesity, I had expected the paper to address the single biggest avoidable health crisis in the UK – obesity. The word obesity appears a dozen times in the 98 page document, but only to describe [...]

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Kellogg’s Coco Pops Advert

Bit of a long blog this, but hopefully worth it! 1)  I subscribe to the Children’s Food Campaign newsletter and support their campaigns. The CFC got a great article in The Independent, which can be seen here. 2) This was an extract from the Children’s Food Campaign January newsletter: “Ever thought of avoiding Coco Pops [...]

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