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24,000 diabetes deaths a year ‘could be avoided’

This news story broke on 14 December 2011. There are 2.3 million diabetics in the UK. The vast majority (c. 90-95%) are type 2 diabetics – all will be explained below. The remainder are type 1 diabetics. A recent (the first ever) audit on patient deaths from diabetes notes that approximately 70-75,000 diabetic patients die [...]

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Diet Pills – Part 2 – Carb blockers

I’m going to do a series of short blogs on different diet pills and what they claim to do. They fall into different categories: 1) Fat binders/blockers; 2) Carb blockers; 3) Metabolism boosters; 4) Appetite suppressants; 5) Those that claim to do most of the above and then some! This second blog is on the [...]

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Should a diet advisor be slim?

When Atkins slipped on the ice and fell, there were more media comments about allegations that he was very overweight at the time of his death than there were about the tragedy of slipping on a NY pavement. I regularly attend obesity conferences and you may be interested to know that the size of people [...]

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The real reason you’re fat

The Daily Mail health section on Tuesdays is a good read. It covers everything from unusual conditions to new views on common conditions. It has first person stories and celebs ‘coming out’ with their condition. Big articles, small snippets etc – it really is a well put together section. I have been enjoying a small [...]

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