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Insurer incentive to shed pounds

29 April 2010
As private health insurers struggle with growing claims for hospital treatment for obesity such as laparoscopic gastric band surgery, insurers in Australia are giving cash bonuses to overweight people to encourage them to lose weight. Overweight individuals can...
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The dangers of shisha

28 April 2010
Research has revealed that one shisha-smoking* session can result in carbon monoxide (CO) levels at least four to five times higher than the amount produced by a cigarette. High levels of carbon monoxide can lead to unconsciousness and brain damage. Measuring carbon...
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Egypt’s tobacco report

  The Ministry of Health, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, and the World Health Organization have produced the first report to include comprehensive data on adult tobacco consumption in Egypt. The report features a survey conducted on...
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Qatar’s obesity epidemic

26 April 2010
While Qatar has the second-highest per capita gross domestic product in the world and the third-largest proven reserves of natural gas, it also holds the less desirable position of ranking sixth globally for the greatest prevalence of obesity and diabetes, according...
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IOM sodium report

23 April 2010
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report entitled Strategies to Reduce Sodium Intake in the United States on 20 April. In this report, requested by Congress, the IOM concluded that reducing sodium content in food requires new government standards on...
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UN sees NCDs as ‘a development issue’

On 13 April 2010, United Nations health experts warned that diseases such as cardiovascular and chronic respiratory illnesses, diabetes and cancer are imposing a much greater strain on the poorest countries than on richer economies, and thus must be tackled as...
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Moderate weight loss halts diabetes

21 April 2010
  Warnings about the link between obesity and diabetes has become even more significant in light of new evidence presented by Australian scientists in a study led by Katherine Samaras, the Associate Professor of Medicine at Sydney’s Garvan Institute of Medical...
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‘Active Fat’ campaign launched

20 April 2010
Diabetes UK, the British Heart Foundation and Cancer Research UK today launched a new campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of carrying excess weight around your middle. The ‘Active Fat’ campaign urges people to measure their waistlines and make...
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Increasing cost of healthy eating

16 April 2010
A five-year study in Queensland, published this week in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, has shown that the price of fruit and veg in Australia is increasing much more rapidly than the prices of other less healthy foods. In this time period,...
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UnitedHealth and YMCA tackle diabetes

15 April 2010
UnitedHealth Group is one of the United States’ largest health insurers, is launching two new schemes that, it hopes, will stop the spiral of medical claims by people with type 2 diabetes, who now number 25 million in the US, with an additional 60 million at...
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