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Shifting the risk of diabetes?

28 June 2011
The initial results of a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association has suggested that shift workers may be at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes, particularly if they continue to do shift working at night over a long period...
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Battle looms over packaging

Something is rattling the tobacco companies: Australia is planning to introduce a requirement for entirely plain, unbranded packaging for cigarettes from the start of 2010, the first country to do so. Philip Morris International, the manufacturer of Marlboro cigarettes...
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UN Outcomes Document: ‘zero draft’

26 June 2011
On 23 June, the ‘zero draft’ of the Outcomes Document, the finalised version of which will be discussed and voted on at the UN High-level Meeting, was published by the co-facilitators of the process (Jamaica and Luxembourg). The eight-page document clearly...
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What foods impede weight loss…

25 June 2011
A study of three cohorts – covering 120,000 people in the United States, who were both not suffering from NCDs and not obese at baseline – published in the New England Journal of Medicine has assessed how particular lifestyle behaviour affects long-term weight...
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Curbing childhood obesity

24 June 2011
In a recently released report, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) urges parents, doctors and carers to educate themselves about childhood weight issues and take responsibility for reducing rising levels of childhood obesity. In doing so, the IOM acknowledges the...
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High BMI at 18 increases cancer risk

17 June 2011
Important results of a cohort review study funded by the National Institutes for Health and the Medical Research Council, and conducted by the MRC and the Chief Scientists’ Office, in collaboration with University College London and the Harvard School of Public...
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Civil society meeting on NCDs

Today, 16 June, has been the interactive hearing on NCDs, bringing together civil society organisations from around the world in the hall of the General Assembly at the United Nations. C3 attended the event, which took the form of an introductory and closing session...
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Heart attacks fall dramatically in London

09 June 2011
Over the last 20 years, rates of heart attack have fallen by an impressive 74 per cent, according to a new report in the European Heart Journal. The data has come from the Whitehall II study (of over 9,000 London-based civil servants), and showed that rates fell...
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Does your diet affect your kids?

08 June 2011
A study of 165 pre-pubertal overweight children (average age eight), published in the journal Pediatrics, has addressed a to-date largely neglected area of research into child obesity:  the effects of changes in parental diet and physical activity programmes centred...
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Sharing MyPlate

04 June 2011
A new food icon, launched by Michelle Obama, the US agriculture secretary and the US surgeon general, has been launched to help people make healthier food choices for themselves and their families, stressing the importance of fruit and vegetables, grains, protein...
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