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C3 Collaborating for Health believes that only by working together can we make it easier to be healthy.

‘One in Six’

29 October 2010
29 October is World Stroke Day, and this year its message is clear: one in six people worldwide will have a stroke at some point during their life, and someone dies from a stroke every six seconds. The ‘One in Six’ campaign has been launched by the World Stroke...
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Still inequitable?

Professor Sir Michael Marmot, one of UK’s leading public-health academics, has always advocated that social inequalities are one of the main cause of common public-health issues such as smoking, alcohol, poor diet and a sedentary lifestyle. His work has shown...
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*How* much corn syrup?

28 October 2010
Public health advocates have long asserted that high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) can have adverse effects on health, as it is extremely rich in sugars. It is a key ingredient in processed foods and has been linked to rising obesity rates over the last 30 years. According...
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Too big to serve?

24 October 2010
A new report from the US National Bureau of Economic Research, Unfit for Service: The Implications of Rising Obesity for US Military Recruitment, warns of a crisis in military enlistment, with 48,000 people being rejected solely on the grounds of overweight between...
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Environment and health win–win?

21 October 2010
A new report for Friends of the Earth, based on research by Oxford University, has been published that summarises the impact of diets heavy in meat and dairy on our health and on the health of the planet. Healthy Planet Eating: How Lower Meat Diets can save Lives...
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Dulce Wireless partnership

19 October 2010
Dulce Wireless Tijuana is a new project in eastern Tijuana, Mexico – bringing together technology company Qualcomm (through its Wireless Reach initiative), a Mexican mobile phone company (Iusacell) and a public-health clinic (Clinica 27) – that is piloting...
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Pipe smoking is no safer

17 October 2010
Lest you were in any doubt, a study published in Tobacco Control has shown that pipe smoking is just as damaging to your health as cigarette smoking. The research took place in Norway, involving nearly 17,000 male participants, aged between 20 and 49, who were...
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Walking around the world

14 October 2010
A survey in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise of a diverse group of over 1,000 Americans has found that they walked an average of 5,117 steps a day – well below the 10,000 steps that is recommended for good health, and also falling far short of...
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Hospital food: too salty for children

11 October 2010
The UK-based Consensus Action on Salt and Health has surveyed 189 hospital meals served to children – and has found that 85 of them exceeded the limits for salt and fat that were brought in for school lunches in 2008. The group surveyed a total of 451 meals (including...
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US/England diabetes differences

10 October 2010
Researchers from the RAND Corporation, University College London and the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London have concluded from a recent study that there exists a definite link between large waist size and higher rates of diabetes in adults, and claim that,...
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