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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Public Health England
Sedentary behaviour
Humans beings have survived thus far because we have managed to acquire at least as much energy as we have
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Designed by the food industry for wealth, not health: the ‘Eatwell Guide’
After a year, I am allowed to publish BJSM articles on my site, so here is my editorial on the
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Eatwell Guide – conflicts of interest
The new ‘eatwell’ guide, no longer a plate, was issued on March 16th 2016. This is my view of that
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Eatwell Guide
The origin of the ‘eatwell’ plate (Throughout this post, the plate/guide will either be called ‘eatwell’ in inverted commas, to
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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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Sugar not saturated fat is the major issue
You can’t have failed to miss the big diet and health story from last week -Dr Aseem Malhotra’s article in
Read moreThe White Paper on Public Health (Andrew Lansley)
The long awaited White Paper on public health has been published (30/11/2010). As someone working exclusively in the field of
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