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

Rio+20: maybe not ‘the future we want’…

25 June 2012
UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, came to an end on 22 June 2012 with the agreement of an outcomes document entitled ‘The future we want’ (click here >>). The conference as a whole has been criticised by environmental NGOs and many environment...
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Cereal FACTS

23 June 2012
Back in 2009, Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity did a comprehensive study of the nutritional quality and marketing of cereals in the United States; the report findings suggested great room for improvement in children’s cereals. Compared...
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An obese planet?

21 June 2012
As the Rio+20 summit on sustainable development continues, a report in BMC Public Health, by researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has highlighted a link between our excess weight and the increasing stress that humans are placing on...
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‘Liquid candy’?

Recently, the Sugary Beverages summit, sponsored in part by the American Heart Association, and the Centre for Science in the Public Interest, called on government to include health warnings on soda bottles and cans. Americans consume large quantities of sugared...
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Rio+20 – an opportunity

20 June 2012
Today, 20 June 2012, is the start of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (‘Rio+20’), 20 years since the historic ‘Earth Summit’, in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The 1992 Summit put people at the centre of concerns for sustainable development – entitled...
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Working out at work?

19 June 2012
Employers can play an important role in encouraging and promoting health among their employees, and workplace health has been the focus of two schemes this week in the UK: it is National Bike Week (16–24 June), and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy organised...
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Saving on active travel

18 June 2012
A study in The Lancet has estimated the effect in the United Kingdom of increasing active travel (walking and cycling) on seven diseases associated with physical inactivity: type 2 diabetes, dementia, cerebrovascular disease, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, depression...
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Measuring child obesity

15 June 2012
A UK study in the journal Obesity has cast doubt on whether the most common way of measuring obesity – body mass index (BMI) – is appropriate for measuring overweight among children, as it does not take account of where the extra weight is being carried by...
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Working together on hypertension

13 June 2012
Three years ago, the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases was established, a partnership of major medical research funders (between them representing over 80 per cent of the world’s funding for medical research), including the UK Medical Research Council, the...
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Disney’s stand on unhealthy foods

09 June 2012
The Disney Corporation has announced that by 2015 advertisements for food products not meeting nutritional guidelines will no longer appear on its websites, children’s television stations or the US national broadcast station ABC. Although this is a move by just...
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