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Civil society meeting on NCDs

17 June 2011
Today, 16 June, has been the interactive hearing on NCDs, bringing together civil society organisations from around the world in the hall of the General Assembly at the United Nations. C3 attended the event, which took the form of an introductory and closing session...
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Healthy lunches help learning

13 April 2011
It is several years since Jamie Oliver, a UK chef, campaigned for improvements in the food served to the country’s children in school lunches, highlighting the inappropriateness of many of the offerings and the inadequacy of the funding devoted to the meals....
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Early origins of health

23 March 2011
Pregnancy presents an ideal window of opportunity to develop healthy patterns that can prevent chronic disease in later life. Recent research evidence highlights the importance of the uterine environment and early childhood as major components of developmental...
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NCDs: a priority for women and girls

28 February 2011
The NCD Alliance has published a report, Non-communicable Diseases: A Priority for Women’s Health and Development (click here >> to download), summarising the burden on non-communicable diseases on women and girls around the world. CVD, for example, is...
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Prevention better than cure

08 January 2011
High levels of cholesterol are a major factor contributing to heart disease and stroke, and CVD has been shown to have its roots in childhood. With the dramatic increases in childhood obesity over the past few decades, more and more children are at risk. However,...
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Better education, better health

18 December 2010
A group of researchers have conducted a study to identify the role of socioeconomic factors in chronic heart failure (CHF), due to the increasing socioeconomic disparity exhibited in cardiovascular risk factors. The research, the ‘Copenhagen City Heart Study’,...
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Double threat of obesity during pregnancy

07 December 2010
The first national study conducted on obesity during pregnancy in the UK has found that almost 39,500 women who were expecting a child were classed as severely obese in Britain last year. The report, conducted by The Centre for Maternal and Child Enquiries, flagged...
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Good health has early roots

28 November 2010
Obesity and high salt intake in childhood are proving to have long-term consequences on physical health. Researchers at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2010 found that eating smaller amounts of salt each day as a teenager could reduce high blood...
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CVD research in India

26 November 2010
The November edition of the Indian Journal of Medical Research includes a special section on research into cardiovascular disease in India, highlighting current research trends and identifying gaps in knowledge. In their introductory editorial, the guest editors...
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“Taking childhood obesity off the menu”

22 November 2010
The 20th Congress of the European Childhood Obesity Group (ECOG) was recently held between 17-20 November 2010 at the European Parliament, bringing together 150 leading researchers, medical and public health professionals in the field of childhood obesity from...
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