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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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Walking off that meal

25 April 2013
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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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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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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Seven simple steps…

20 March 2013
A large study of over 13,000 people in the US, published in Circulation, and tracked over a period of 17–19 years whether lifestyle changes that are known to help to protect against cardiovascular disease would also protect against cancer. The seven lifestyle...
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A growing addiction

06 March 2013
A new report has been published in Addiction, looking at patterns of alcohol consumption in over 240 countries and territories in 2005 and updating them to give a 2010 estimate (these were used in the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010, released in December –...
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Lower-calorie restaurant options

02 March 2013
Serving healthier food in restaurants is good for business, according to a recently released report by the Hudson Institute (a non-partisan US-based policy research organisation; this research was conducted as part of its Obesity Solutions Initiative). The study,...
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Sugar leaves a sour taste

01 March 2013
A study by Sanjay Basu, from Stanford University, published in PLoS One, has looked at nutrition and health data from 175 countries over a period of 10 years, and found a link between increasing availability of sugar in the food supply and increased prevalence...
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How much do you drink?

27 February 2013
A new report in the European Journal of Public Health has come up with some worrying figures on the level of ‘binge drinking’ in England. Binge drinking is defined as drinking more than double the recommended daily maximum (i.e. a total of six or more units...
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