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

New youth markets for tobacco

11 May 2013
During the past two years, the challenges of rising rates of smoking in Indonesia have become increasingly apparent. In this diverse country, tobacco is an integral part of the economy, and tobacco-related industries account for 10 per cent of employment –...
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Getting round the restrictions?

30 April 2013
Advertising regulators have put in place restrictions in the UK on advertising of foods high in sugar, salt and fat from children’s television, but food companies including Haribo and Cadbury have now transferred the banned advertising to their child-friendly...
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Urban green spaces

26 April 2013
The journal Psychological Science has published a fascinating study about the connection between physical environment and human health. It has long been acknowledged that the physical environment has a major impact on psychological and mental health and wellbeing....
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NCDFREE

25 April 2013
On 26 March 2013, the Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network (YPCDN) and an Australian design firm, Local Peoples, launched a ‘global social movement to reverse the non-communicable disease burden worldwide’: NCDFREE. It is currently seeking crowd-sourced...
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Walking off that meal

Findings of a small study presented at the Experimental Biology conference in Boston, and widely reported in the media, have shown the impact that presenting calorie data can have when it is presented in a new way. Menus in some restaurants now include calorie...
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Diabetes/heart disease in Cuba

11 April 2013
By tracking Cuba during and after the economic downturn in the early 1990s, a paper in the British Medical Journal has shown a strong association between population-wide weight-loss and the burden of type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease. During the Cuban...
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Using football for health

09 April 2013
As C3 reported in an Alert in 2012 (here >> ), football club FC Barcelona has a history of working to kick the smoking habit among its supporters, first banning smoking across all Barça facilities and then launching a Quit Smoking with Barça initiative....
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Diabetes: are we looking in the wrong place?

07 April 2013
The number of people with diabetes, or at high risk of diabetes, has been rising dramatically, and is set to increase still further – from around 370 million today to over 550 million. Despite this trend – which will put ever-greater stress on health systems...
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China: 1.2m premature deaths…

03 April 2013
A study led by an institute at the University of Washington has found that outdoor air pollution contributed to 1.2 million premature deaths in China during 2010. Researchers have estimated the loss of 25 million healthy years due to ambient particulate matter...
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Technology and hunger

30 March 2013
The microchip has already changed so much about our lives – and is now being developed to help suppress appetite. At Imperial College London this week, scientists have developed a new tool that could revolutionise the treatment of obesity by suppressing appetite...
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