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

UK: Drop in teenage smo...

19th August, 2010
Research conducted by University College London and published in the journal Addiction has found that the number of 16- and 17-year-old smokers has dropped since it became illegal to sell cigarettes to under-18s in the UK. Researchers found the number of smokers dropped by 7 per cent,...
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High youth cholesterol&...

03rd August, 2010
UCSF researchers conducted a longitudinal 20-year study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, which found that young adults in their 20s and 30s with even mildly elevated cholesterol levels are more likely to develop coronary artery calcium and atherosclerosis when they are...
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Brain risk with type 2 ...

31st July, 2010
Central nervous system abnormalities including cognitive and brain impairments have been documented in adults with type 2 diabetes who also have multiple co-morbid disorders. Based on this observation, Yau et al. assessed adolescents with type 2 diabetes to evaluate whether having...
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Breast *is* best...

27th July, 2010
Researcher Dr Julie Smith and her team at the Australian National University have found that infants who were prematurely weaned were more likely to be at risk from a host of chronic diseases as adults compared to those who were weaned later. The research analysed the results of...
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HELP campaign wins awar...

04th July, 2010
At the EACA (European Association of Communications Agencies) Care Awards ceremony that took place in Brussels on 23 June 2010, the European Commission’s 2009-2010 ‘HELP, for a life without tobacco’ campaign was recognised as the top social marketing campaign for...
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Being healthier begins ...

01st July, 2010
Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine has added to evidence that school can have a positive impact on children’s health. Through encouraging healthy eating and improving physical education classes, levels of obesity can be reduced. Obesity is a key risk factor...
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Girls: lose weight for ...

28th May, 2010
A study analysing nearly 110,000 women in the United States, to be published in Diabetes Care, has found that weightloss in childhood can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. The study began in 1989, with an initial survey on the women’s health, history and lifestyle. Each woman...
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Qatar’s obesity epide...

26th April, 2010
While Qatar has the second-highest per capita gross domestic product in the world and the third-largest proven reserves of natural gas, it also holds the less desirable position of ranking sixth globally for the greatest prevalence of obesity and diabetes, according to the International...
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Heart risk to babies of...

08th April, 2010
Adding to a long list of maternal complications that are associated with obesity, new research has found that the more obese a woman is when she becomes pregnant, the greater the chance that she will give birth to an infant with a congenital heart defect. They study, in the American...
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Breastfeeding reduce di...

01st April, 2010
Childbearing increases the risk of women developing type 2 diabetes later in life, but this can risk can be reduced by breastfeeding a study conducted in Australia has found. 50,000 women took part in the study conducted by researchers from the University of Western Sydney’s...
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