Obesity Injection (Horizon prog)
The story On June 7th 2016 overweight and obese people were given a hope – a false hope – that
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Obesity
Eat Fat, Cut The Carbs and Avoid Snacking To Reverse Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes
I rarely send out press releases, but it’s not every day that you get the chair of the UK National
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Lessons from The Biggest Loser
Back in 2010 I met with a TV producer who was working on diet programmes. She shared that one of
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Global obesity from 1975 to 2014
Christmas came early for obesity researchers on April Fool’s Day. The Lancet is really leading the way in global obesity
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BMI – from adults to children
Body Mass Index (BMI) has been in the news recently. I’ve picked out two stories from the past fortnight on
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Public Health Collaboration: Doctors are doing it for themselves
In six years of sending out this Monday note on a topical diet and health story, I have never sent
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Burning off calories (& food labels)
On 15 January 2016, the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) called for the introduction of ‘activity equivalent’ calorie labelling
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Two doctors in the house
On Tuesday 17th November 2015, there was a programme on Channel 4 called “Doctor in your house”. The doctor was
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How does a 6 year old become 8 stone?
During the October half term (2015) holidays, a mum appeared on breakfast TV’s “This Morning” show, under the name of
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How can a 3 year old have a lifestyle condition?
I remember attending an obesity conference in Liverpool in 2009 arranged by the Association for the Study of Obesity. One
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