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NCDs: a priority for women and girls

28 February 2011
The NCD Alliance has published a report, Non-communicable Diseases: A Priority for Women’s Health and Development (click here >> to download), summarising the burden on non-communicable diseases on women and girls around the world. CVD, for example, is...
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Reaching ‘Saturation Point’?

24 February 2011
In an interesting development, a proposal by Dominos Pizza to open a takeaway outlet near a primary school in east London has been turned down at appeal, with the ruling giving significant weight to the local council’s new planning guidance on the location of...
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Carrots, sticks or sermons?

22 February 2011
Typically, when studying the impact of public policies on dietary choice and eating behaviour, there is one variable measured: the impact of taxing high-calorie or high-sugar products, for example, or providing clear product labels with calorie information. Few...
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Tobacco and TV in China

20 February 2011
China is the largest consumer and producer of tobacco in the world; the China National Tobacco Corporation produces over 40% of the world’s cigarettes. In an effort to reduce tobacco use, particularly among youth, the Chinese government intends to review and...
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Dealing with responsibility

19 February 2011
It was widely reported on 19 February  2011 that England’s Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has requested a written agreement to list calories on menus, reduce salt in food and eliminate trans-fats in food. In a major health-promotion move – designed to...
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Risk factor fears

14 February 2011
An epidemic of premature cardiovascular disease is developing that will hit low- and middle-income countries the hardest, according to findings from the Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases Collaborating Group, published in The Lancet. The...
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Persisting dangers of obesity epidemic

12 February 2011
There are nearly 3 million obesity-related chronic disease deaths worldwide each year. Body-mass index (BMI) has nearly doubled worldwide over the last 30 years, and studies show that these increases in BMI have the potential to reverse life-expectancy gains in...
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Hospitals leading the way in health

11 February 2011
According to a recent editorial in the New York Times, there are increasing moves in the United States not only to ban smoking within the vicinity of health-care facilities, but to refuse employment on the grounds of smoking status, the rationale being that non-smokers...
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World Bank: threat of NCDs in S. Asia

‘South Asia is at a crossroads’, the World Bank states in a new report, Capitalizing on the Demographic Transition: Tackling Noncommunicable Diseases in South Asia (click here >>), with the threat of NCDs seemingly rising inexorably. The report looks...
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Get outside – feel better!

08 February 2011
A review published in Environmental Science and Technology analysed a number of trials of physical activity, participants in which reported that exercising outside then gives more energy, increased feelings of revitalisation and decreased tension and depression,...
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