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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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Obesity – a big problem but a shared responsibility
Guest Blog by Robin Millar, Acting Chief Executive, 2020health Obesity is a complex issue – like health itself, it affects how we live our daily lives, the environment in which we live and work and how we feel about ourselves. In … Continue reading
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Tagged Department of Health, government, Obesity, Public Health, sugar tax
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The challenge remains: healthcare needs reform
Comment by Robin Millar, Acting Chief Executive, 2020health On a day of changing faces around the Cabinet table, the Prime Minister has retained Jeremy Hunt as Secretary of State for Health – and he has retained the challenge of reforming the NHS. The pressures … Continue reading
Posted in EU, Health and Wellbeing, Health reform, Jeremy Hunt, NHS, NHS England, NHS reforms, Public Health
Tagged Brexit, Health care, Jeremy Hunt, NHS, Obesity
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Do we care enough to ask what is behind the biggest recent annual rise in death rates?
The Telegraph lead with provisional statistics from the ONS this morning on the steepest annual rise in death rates since the second world war. They are right that alarm bells should be ringing, and urgent questions should be asked: Is … Continue reading
Posted in Elderly, Patients, Uncategorized
Tagged cuts, death, isolation, Liver disease, lonliness, mental illness, mortality, Obesity, ONS, Social Care, telegraph
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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
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
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
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