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Tackling obesity – What the UK can learn from other countries
This week 2020health is producing its third report on obesity: Tackling obesity – What the UK can learn from other countries. The prevalence of overweight and obesity among adults and children has never been higher in the UK, so what … Continue reading
Posted in Nutrition, Obesity, Public Health
Tagged Careless Eating Costs Lives, childhood obesity, correlates, EPODE, Fat Chance?, Obesity, prevention, Public Health
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What should we be doing this JanUary?
Guest Blog by Professor David Hallam, Chairman of the National Obesity Forum We all know the NHS is under enormous pressure. It requires a near unprecedented cash influx from the Government, while still needing to make tens of billions in savings before the end of … Continue reading
Getting the Christmas Parties Started!
Guest Blog by Sian Porter, Consultant Dietitian & Spokesperson for the British Dietetic Association With the festive party season kicking off, there is a tangible sense of excitement and frivolity. For many of us the Christmas period is the one … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Health and Wellbeing, Nutrition, Obesity, Public Health, Uncategorized
Tagged 5-a-day, alcohol, British Dietetic Association, congeners, meal portions, NHS, nutrition
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No Silver Bullet for Obesity
Nadiya Hussain was recently crowned queen of a relatively new British institution: the Great British Bake-off – and a few weeks later was a star guest at the Women of the Year lunch on Park Lane. Yet in the same … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Obesity, NHS England, Obesity, Public Health
Tagged childhood obesity, Obesity, stable wealthy
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‘Who exactly becomes obese?’
Jack Nicholson once said, with my sunglasses on I am Jack Nicholson; without them I am fat and 60! With or without sunglasses, more than half of the UK adult population are now overweight or obese. ‘So what?’ cry the … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Obesity, NHS, Obesity, Public Health
Tagged BMI, childhood obesity, Nanny state, Obesity
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Obesity and Sugar – Successive governments have failed to act despite the warnings
The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) report out on Friday 17th makes recommendations on sugar and fibre consumption. Inevitably the recommendations on sugar got the most attention, with a call for us to reduce our intake by half. 2020health’s … Continue reading
French Lessons that can really help
As the challenge of an increasing obesogenic population shows no sign of going away, the deluge of diet regimes, fitness regimes and research that either condemns or promotes certain foods over another continues to flow. How do we begin to … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Obesity, Nutrition, Obesity, Public Health
Tagged Careless Eating Costs Lives, diet, Dieticians, EPODE, healthy diet, nutrition, obesogenic
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British Heart Foundation and 2020health on the same page
2020health welcomes the latest report published by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) ‘The 21st Century Gingerbread House’. What particularly resonated with us where the two calls to action: • To protect children the UK Government should introduce consistent regulations across … Continue reading
Pound for pound: the economic case for weight loss
Guest Blog by Matt James, Senior Researcher at 2020health Name calling is not pleasant but sometimes behind the hurt and the pain there is a degree of truth. In 2013 the World Health Organization (WHO) called Britain the ‘Fat man … Continue reading
Lifting the scales from our eyes
Guest Blog by Matt James, Senior Researcher at 2020health Whatever types of interventions are introduced to address the obesity challenge, ultimately it is only the individual who can take the necessary steps to eat healthily, keep to a healthy weight … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Obesity, Children, Health and Wellbeing, Obesity, Public Health
Tagged Asset-Base Community Development, Careless Eating Costs Lives, childhood obesity, Department of Health, diet, EPODE, GP, health, healthy lifestyle, HENRY, Matt James, Obesity, pharmacists, The Wells Family Challenge
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