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Calorie labelling and food choices

29 July 2011
A study by the New York Health Department has investigated the effect of a law put into place in the city in 2008 that requires restaurants to display calorie information on menus. One in six of the people using the restaurants were found to have used the nutrition...
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NCDs in China

27 July 2011
A new report from the World Bank, Towards a Healthy and Harmonious Life in China: Stemming the Rising Tide of Non-communicable Diseases, feeds into the Ministry of Health’s three-step process to tackle NCDs, step two of which is implementing analytical studies...
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Sodium and potassium balance

25 July 2011
Potatoes, grapes, carrots and bananas can be good for heart health— particularly if you are concerned with high dietary-sodium levels, which contribute to elevated blood pressure.  A recent study of over 12,000 US adults published by the Archives of Internal...
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Positive outlook and physical health

24 July 2011
A large, nationally representative US study recently published in the American Heart Association journal Stroke (click here >>) finds a relationship between optimism and stroke reduction. Using self-reported measures evaluating the impact of positive attitude...
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Mrs Obama: access to healthy food

In the United States, major retailers, foundations and small businesses have come together, led by Michelle Obama, to pledge to improve access to healthy food for millions of people in more deprived communities, where access is often limited. As well as regional...
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Risk factors and Alzheimer’s

20 July 2011
Evidence is growing that tackling the major risk factors for NCDs such as CVD, type 2 diabetes and cancer can also greatly impact the rising tide of Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. According to research that analysed data from around the...
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A nudge or a shove?

19 July 2011
In a much-anticipated report on Behaviour Change (click here >>), the UK’s House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology has questioned just how far ‘nudging’ can go to change behaviour on issues such as tackling climate change and the public-health...
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IDRC: new NCD programme

The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Canada has just announced the launch of its newly approved Non-Communicable Disease Prevention program (NCDP), which will run from 2011 to 2016. Its goal is to general knowledge that will inform low-cost policies...
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Salt: appetite or addiction?

14 July 2011
A new study on mice has found that the gene patterns that are activated by stimulating the appetite for salt are the same groups of genes regulated by addiction to addictive drugs such as cocaine or heroin. Inducing salt appetite led to changes in the hypothalamus,...
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Infant/toddler exercise

13 July 2011
As C3 has reported recently (click here >>), the US Institute of Medicine has recommended that parents become more aware of rising levels of childhood obesity and assume responsibility for ensuring their children avoid becoming over weight. Responding to...
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