2009 October- C3: Collaborating For Health

World Stroke Day

29 October 2009

The main message of this year’s World Stroke Day is that ‘everyone can do something about stroke’. More information can be found at http://www.world-stroke.org/wsd/ Individuals can: Find out their stroke risk Check or review their lifestyle Measure their...

Diabetes in Australia to double

28 October 2009

The National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling is predicting that the prevalence of type 2 diabetes will almost double in the next 40 years to 1.6 million people – by which time the disease will be costing Aus$14 billion per year. Complications arising...

Abu Dhabi diabetes walk

22 October 2009

Walk UAE is part of ‘Diabetes Knowledge Action’, a public-health campaign organised by the Imperial College London Diabetes Centre. Up to 10,000 people (up 25 per cent on last year) are expected to take part in the walk around the YAS Marina Circuit on 20 November,...

Pre-diabetes ‘timebomb’

19 October 2009

To mark the start of Diabetes UK’s Get Serious campaign, the charity has launched a report highlighting the prevalence of pre-diabetes. Currently, 2.6 million people in the UK have diabetes (with over 145,000 new cases diagnosed in the past year) – and the...

Positive impact of smoking ban

16 October 2009

The effect of reducing second-hand smoke exposure has been highlighted by a new report from the Institute of Medicine in the United States. The report reviewed 11 major studies of the effects of smoking bans in parts of the United States, Canada, Italy and Scotland,...

China: celebs anti-smoking campaign

12 October 2009

China ratified the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in 2006, but Vice Health Minister Huang Jiefu recently admitted that China is making only ‘slow progress’ in implementing it. Tobacco output has increased by 18.4% between 2004 and 2008, with the tobacco...

Med diet – good for you but pricey?

07 October 2009

Mental as well as physical benefits - at a cost Several studies have recently extolled the benefits of eating a ‘Mediterranean’ diet, characterised by high intakes of monounsaturated fatty acids (e.g. olive oil) and fruit, vegetables and fish, moderate consumption...

Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation

05 October 2009

More than 40 retailers, NGOs and food and drink manufacturers in the United States have launched the ‘Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation’, described as ‘a national, multi-year effort designed to help reduce obesity – especially childhood obesity – by...

US: pressure builds for ‘soda tax’…

02 October 2009

An article in the New England Journal of Medicine (‘The public health and economic benefits of taxing sugar-sweetened beverages’, Brownell et al., 19 September) has added to the calls for taxing high-sugar drinks, noting that ‘The consumption of sugar-sweetened...

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01 October 2009