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Weighing up carrots and sticks
Guest Blog by Matt James, Senior Researcher at 2020health Overeating and poor diet. Lack of health literacy. Not enough time for exercise and a rise in sedentary lifestyles. These are just some of the reasons often cited for the rise … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Obesity, Obesity, Public Health, Wellbeing
Tagged lifestyle, NHS, Obesity, overeating, poor diet
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Obesity – Victims of our own success?
By Matt James, Senior Researcher at 2020health In the previous blog post we saw how human biology, our new lifestyles and the modern food supply has helped to contribute to the rise in obesity. Addressing the complex interplay of evolutionary, … Continue reading
Obesity: an evolutionary by product?
As part of national obesity week 2020health is running a series of blogs building on the success of our recent report Careless eating costs lives. The blogs will cover various themes which speak to the obesity challenge the UK currently … Continue reading
Top 5 Worst Celebrity Diets to Avoid in 2015
In anticipation of our gaining a few pounds over the next few weeks, we are delighted that the BDA has done the ground work and highlighted the diets to avoid come the New Year urge to undo the damage. Here are the … Continue reading
Extraordinary confessions, a rare strike and a plan
It’s busy in health news today. There’s the NHS strike over pay – the BBC’s Norman Smith has just reported (at 7.40am) that “Health sec Jeremy Hunt says will sit down and negotiate with NHS unions if they agree to … Continue reading
Posted in NHS reforms, Obesity
Tagged Careless Eating, Confession, food, Jeremy Hunt, NHS, Obesity, Strike, Tory Party
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High Five – but where is the COBRA for obesity?
So, the BBC has highlighted the BMJ report that all we need to do is eat five portions of fruit and veg a day, no more, no less. More advice for the public on what they should be doing – … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Obesity, Obesity
Tagged 5-a-day, COBRA, DCLG, DCMS, DWP, food, fruit, health, HMT, Obesity, vegetables
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The NHS can’t stretch to gastric band surgery for all
Baroness Young of Diabetes UK has just been speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme in response to the draft advice from NICE that everyone who is obese and has type 2 diabetes (the former often causes the latter) should … Continue reading
Posted in Obesity
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Monday round-up: Obesity, free choice, technology and brains
Dr Sarah Wollaston MP has begun the morning tweeting about obesity apropos her conversation with Dr Hilary Cass, President of the Royal Society of Paediactrics and Child Health on Politics Home. We agree with both of them – stricter planning … Continue reading
Guest Blogspot: Prevention is better than cure.
The economic consequences of preventing illness are highly complex. Just comparing the costs of prevention with the direct treatment costs that should be avoided is far too simplistic. The true economic impact of preventative measures can often only be assessed … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Business, Children, Elderly, Health Bill, Healthcare, Information, Jeremy Hunt, NHS, Obesity, Patient choice, Patients, Policy, Uncategorized
Tagged accidents, alcohol, Andrew Lansley, arthritis, cancer, cardiovasculsr, cause of dsath, choice, elderly, government, health, Health Bill, injury, Jeremy Hunt, longevity, mortality, National Health Service, NHS, Obesity, Patients, prevention, Public Health, respiratory, smoking, tobacco
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