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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Children’s Health
The story that melted my outrage scale
This story got picked up by the media at the start of July, but it derives from a Q&A on
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The British Nutrition Foundation, Food Giants and our Children
We had dinner with friends recently – the proud parents of 11 and 13 year old boys. Mum could not
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Tesco reducing sugar in soft drinks & what has salt got to do with it
I was on the Victoria Derbyshire show on Friday 22nd May 2015, speaking to Joanna Gosling about an Action on
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Georgia Davis May 2015 update
I was wondering recently how Georgia Davis was doing, as she hadn’t popped up in The Sun for a while
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Does breastfeeding make humans more intelligent?
I was spoiled for choice for a story from last week. There was an interesting report from the University of
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Do sugary drinks cause menstruation to start earlier?
I have never had reason to write about the impact of sugary drinks on the age of menstruation – until
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Change4Life Sugar Swaps
Last week sugar was back in the news. Two aspects, of the same misunderstanding, caught my attention… The first was
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The difficulty of being a parent in a sugar pushing world
I remember when I was younger, the excitement I felt when I found a key ring or pen with my
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Is a 15 stone 11-year-old child abuse?
I got a call at 7am on Friday morning – number withheld. That has come to mean one thing –
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