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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Was it National Obesity week last week?
It’s lovely to be back on home turf of obesity and what a week it was for people interested in
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Fancy swallowing a gastric balloon?
Gastric balloons were the big story last week. I was just setting off for a couple of days away (January
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Was the genetics programme about genetics?
On Thursday 23rd May (2013), Channel 4 aired a programme called “Fat Family Tree”. It had good PR coverage the
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Malta – the unhealthy Mediterranean island
This media update is coming from sunny Malta. Andy and I are over here sneaking a week’s holiday before the
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Can Atkins diet raise heart attack risk for women?
So screamed the headlines on Wednesday 27th June 2012. This was the full article in the BMJ, which was behind
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Chocolate ‘may help keep people slim’ (not)!
On Tuesday 27th March 2012 the headlines started “Chocolate ‘may help keep people slim‘” announced the BBC. The Independent headline
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NHS Slimming operations have doubled in one year
Official figures show that there were 4,619 bariatric surgery operations in England in 2008 – a 51% increase on the
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