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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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Cooking lessons in school

13 February 2013
As a part of the Coalition Government revision of the national curriculum, Education Secretary Michael Gove has announced that all schoolchildren up to age 14 in England and Wales will be taught to cook and prepare healthy meals. The move is intended to improve...
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Obesity in an age of austerity

23 January 2013
Public health minister Anna Soubry recently sparked controversy by noting a change in recent decades in the weight of deprived children in the UK – that poorer children are no longer ‘skinny runts’, but instead have access to a diet of often unhealthy food,...
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Smoking ban’s positive effect on children

21 January 2013
A new study has confirmed the impact of earlier, smaller studies that indicated that there has been a significant impact on child health from the UK’s ban on smoking in public places, implemented in 2007. Comparing NHS statistics on the number of children...
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Early action on child obesity

10 December 2012
It has long been suggested that several risk factors – including maternal overweight and tobacco consumption, high birth weight and rapid weight gain during infancy – increase the likelihood of  developing childhood obesity. Childhood obesity is a major...
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Just how safe is cycling?

08 December 2012
With reports coming in all too often of serious injury and deaths of cyclists on Britain’s roads, it can often appear that cycling is an extremely dangerous way to travel. But a study published in PLoS One has looked at the relative risk of cycling and driving...
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Tackling health threats in the 21st century

02 December 2012
An editorial in The Lancet has set out its ‘manifesto for the world we want’ – five key health priorities as discussions and consultations continue on the post-2015 development framework (to replace the current Millennium Development Goals) and the proposed...
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Peer pressure and exercise

27 November 2012
Lifestyle behaviours among all of us are shaped by environment. Addressing rising levels of childhood obesity will require a multi-pronged strategy, with a keen focus on increasing levels of physical activity. With young people as well as adults, peer groups are...
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Uruguay: it can be done!

04 November 2012
A striking survey of smoking trends in Uruguay, published in the Lancet, has demonstrated the difference that a comprehensive raft of anti-smoking measures can make, in comparison with a neighbouring country (Argentina) where such measures have only very recently...
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