Are we wrong to focus on sugar to try to tackle obesity?
This week’s story didn’t make a big impact. I spotted it on a left hand side page (p22) in one
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The UK diet – then and now
Last week’s papers were full of details about how the UK diet has changed over the years. The BBC covered
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Coca-cola, exercise & conflicts
The last couple of weeks have seen Coca-Cola in the news quite a bit. Coca-Cola has been having a tough
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The real truth about calories
There’s a BBC 1 series going on at the moment: The truth about… The first episode was about sugar; the
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Katie Hopkins: My Fat Story
The starting aim and metrics “Katie Hopkins: My Fat story” was a programme aired in two parts on TLC on
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Alcohol and health
The issue of alcohol and calories proved to be of much interest to a number of recipients of this note.
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Alcohol, calories, labels and disingenuity
The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) published a press release on 31st October 2014 calling on the drinks industry
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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
Read moreEngland’s Obesity Strategy (not)
On Thursday 13 October, 2011, the Department of Health issued this press release, optimistically called “Government calls time on obesity.”
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Exercise – personal experience – part 2
This blog has attracted a few comments – any suggestion that exercise is not going to make a person slim
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