Fat shaming or life saving
Introduction In February 2004, HTV Wales made a discussion programme about obesity. They hosted a dozen people with many different
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Obesity
COVID-19 Risk factors
Executive summary Introduction On March 17th, 2020, when I first searched the academic database, PubMed, for “COVID-19” and “humans”, there
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A global diet in an obese and starving world
Introduction In my last year of corporate life (2008), as HR Director across a group of companies I introduced ‘Lunch
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Weight gain over Christmas
This will be the last note before Christmas, so it seems appropriate to look at a festive study that has
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Diet for weight maintenance
On 16th November 2018, NY Times reporter Anahad O’Connor tweeted that the number one most emailed story on the NY
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World Obesity Day
October 11th (2018) was World Obesity Day. World Obesity Day was launched in 2015 by the World Obesity Federation “to
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A new miracle diet pill?
We were still digesting ‘that (not) low-carb study’ when stories started to emerge from the European Society of Cardiology conference,
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Men, Women & Dieting
This week’s note comes from a global collaboration between researchers in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The research was reported
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Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall & Childhood Obesity
Two chefs have been all over the news in the UK for the past week. Jamie Oliver is probably fairly
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Gary Taubes in London
Gary Taubes (GT) has been in London, over the weekend of 17-18 March 2018, doing a marathon six hour presentation
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