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Large waist mortality r...

09th August, 2010
A US study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, has found that men and women with large waists are at an increased risk of dying young, regardless of their BMI. For nine years the researchers followed more than 100,000 men and women aged 50 and older, and found that the...
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19 food producers to us...

30th July, 2010
Nineteen of France’s largest food manufacturers have signed a deal with the government agreeing to cut the amount of salt they use in food products. Findus, McCain and Fleury-Michon are among those in the industry who have promised to introduce recipe changes between now and...
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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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Denmark: ‘fat tax’ ...

07th July, 2010
From 1 July 2010, the Danish government has increased taxes on a range of products, with the tax on ice-cream, chocolate, sweets and soft-drinks rising by 25 per cent, and tax decreasing on sugar-free soft drinks. The aim of the change, as set out in a November 2009 paper from the...
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Food insecurity and chr...

05th July, 2010
The USDA reported that after a decade of relative stability, the percentage of US households that are food insecure had increased by 32% in 2008, reaching 14.6% of households nationally. The figures are even higher among households below the federal poverty line (42%), black and Hispanic...
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US obesity rates *still...

30th June, 2010
In the past year, levels of obesity in the United States have steadily increased, with rates rising in 28 states. According to a report released this week entitled ‘F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2010’, eight states have obesity rates of more than...
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IOM sodium report...

23rd April, 2010
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report entitled Strategies to Reduce Sodium Intake in the United States on 20 April. In this report, requested by Congress, the IOM concluded that reducing sodium content in food requires new government standards on acceptable levels of...
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Moderate weight loss ha...

21st April, 2010
  Warnings about the link between obesity and diabetes has become even more significant in light of new evidence presented by Australian scientists in a study led by Katherine Samaras, the Associate Professor of Medicine at Sydney’s Garvan Institute of Medical Research. This is...
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‘Time-bomb’ of chro...

10th April, 2010
The World Health Organisation has warned that the adoption of unhealthy dietary habits and sedentary urban lifestyles with no regular physical exercise will see non-communicable diseases such a hypertension, obesity and diabetes emerge as the major killers ahead of HIV/AIDS and malaria...
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England: lifestyle dise...

02nd April, 2010
A study from the Department of Health has shown that binge drinking and obesity are leading to rises in ‘lifestyle illnesses’ such as liver disease and diabetes. However, the report also shows that premature deaths from heart disease and cancer are falling faster in...
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