Britain needs to go on a diet says Public Health England
Back in October 2011, England announced a new obesity ‘strategy’. I blogged on it here. The three key proposals were:
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Obesity
Type 2 diabetes WILL get worse without lifestyle change
We’re returning to the omnipresent topic of type 2 diabetes this week because there was a study published on 11th
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Fasting for weightloss
I’ve just got back from speaking at the second Public Health Collaboration Conference. This one was held at the Manchester
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Kekwick & Pawan: is a calorie a calorie?
I was hoping that this week’s note would report breakthroughs from the European Congress on Obesity, which was held in
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What the US eats
This post goes hand in hand with this one on UK food intake. I’ve looked at UK and US food
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Will Trump tackle obesity?
Apart from the 44th president’s struggle to stay away from cigarettes, Barack and Michelle Obama were a healthy couple. They
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Heart Disease: genes vs. lifestyle
Many thanks to Jerome Burne for alerting me to this one. Jerome sent me a paper to take a look
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South African Dietary Guidelines
On 16th September 2016, it was announced that Nina Teicholz and I would be going to Cape Town to appear
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‘Fitbits’ won’t make you slim, but nor will low-cal diets
A really interesting study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on September 20th 2016. It was
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UK Childhood Obesity ‘Strategy’
On 18th August 2016 a long awaited childhood obesity strategy was published by the UK government. The report can be
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