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

Written by Zoë on December 14, 2011 - 1 Comment
Categories: Gov. Policy, Obesity, Research

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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Weight gain between Thanksgiving & New Year

Written by Zoë on December 31, 2009 - 0 Comments
Categories: Obesity

It is an often quoted ‘fact’ that Americans gain up to half a stone on average between Thanksgiving and New Year. Thanksgiving in America falls on the last Thursday in November, so it was on November 26th in 2009. Whilst not such a big even in Canada, Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving on the second Monday in [...]

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