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Good news on food in UK schools

29 April 2012
A study by the School Food Trust of the food offered to pupils in secondary schools in the UK has demonstrated that there has been a dramatic improvement in nutrition since compulsory nutrition standards came into effect in 2009. The survey of over 10,000 pupils...
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Road Map for diabetes in Europe

28 April 2012
On 25–26 April 2012, a European Diabetes Leadership Forum (click here >>)  was held in Copenhagen. C3’s Christine Hancock was among around 800 delegates at the event, which included discussion on a new Road Map to tackle diabetes, which will be launched...
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London: new research focus on NCDs

26 April 2012
On 25 April, a launch conference – ‘Global NCDs: from research to action’ – was held for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s new Centre for Global NCDs. The work of the centre was introduced by its director Peter Piot,...
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Training the next generation

24 April 2012
A mentoring scheme, establishing a network of US academic institutions that will partner with young health researchers in developing countries, is being funded by the Fogarty International Center and the National Institutes of Health. Over the next five years,...
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Salt reduction and fast food

23 April 2012
During recent years there has been renewed focus on the salt content of popular food items. In response, the fast-food industry has made a commitment to reducing the salt content of their products. In the UK, during 2009, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) developed...
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Global: senior vacancies advertised

C3 has been informed of two interesting new senior posts that are currently being recruited: Executive director, Access to Nutrition Index (ATNI) The Access to Nutrition Index will rate the world’s 25 largest food and beverage companies’ performance in both...
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Food deserts: reality or myth?

18 April 2012
The concept of the food desert – an urban area in which access to affordable, good-quality fresh foods are limited – particularly in deprived urban areas of the United States, has been taken up by public-health advocates including Michelle Obama. Where access...
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Walking to mental health

16 April 2012
There is already significant evidence on the benefits of physical activity on depression (see, for example, C3’s report The Benefits of Physical Activity for Health and Well-being (2011), p. 6 and Table 5), but a new study has sought to identify whether walking,...
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Defining obesity?

06 April 2012
Research published in PLoS One, which went beyond a simple BMI calculation to ascertain obesity levels in the United States, has estimated that ‘we may be much further behind than we thought’ in estimates of obesity in the country – with up to 39 per cent...
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Fast-food consumption and depression

01 April 2012
Several news outlets have written recently about a large prospective cohort study conducted by researchers from the University of Las Palmas in Gran Canaria and the University of Navarra. The research, known as SUN (Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra), is a long-running...
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