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

Trade versus health – who wins?

05 December 2011
Samoa, a South Pacific island nation with a population of 193,000, is – after a 13-year wait – on the verge of winning approval to join the World Trade Organization. However, this has come at a price: the elimination of ‘the prohibition on the importation...
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Investing in health

02 December 2011
New initiatives in four European countries are to be funded by the Kraft Foods Foundation, partnering with local organisations with Save the Children Italy, the French Red Cross, Klasse2000 in Germany and the Alicia Foundation in Spain. In France, the Foundation...
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Taking an ecosystems view

Climate change is currently being discussed in Durban (see also C3’s news alert on climate change and health here >>), and a recent UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) issue paper focuses on another important aspect of the issue for those concerned...
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COP17 and NCDs

01 December 2011
The latest round of international discussions on climate change, COP17 (the 17th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), has begun in Durban, South Africa, with our window of opportunity to take action on changing...
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Exercise more – and you’ll eat better!

25 November 2011
Looking at the ways in which lifestyle choices – particularly diet and exercise – are related to each other, and whether they share any common neurocognitive mechanisms, may provide insights to optimise weight-loss interventions. A new study published in Obesity...
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The Americas take on salt

14 November 2011
A meeting on 27 and 28 October of the Regional Expert Group on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention through Dietary Salt Reduction of the Pan American Health Organization discussed efforts made by many countries in North, Central and South America to reduce salt intake...
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Fast food, healthy food and middle-class diners

09 November 2011
Recent articles have been a reminder of the social gradient in health and wellness, reinforcing that the poor are more likely to be overweight or obese, but the question remains as to whether this is because of a diet of fast-food restaurant dining.  The December...
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Filipinos gaining weight…

07 November 2011
A survey by the National Statistics Coordination Board (NSCB) in the Philippines has found that 26.6 per cent of Filipino adults were overweight in 2008 (5.2 per cent are obese), a marked increase from 16.6 per cent in 1993. Overweight is also rising among children...
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Commercial weight-loss programmes

05 November 2011
According to recent research published in the Lancet, programmes like Weight Watchers, which have commercially prepared diet plans, are more successful at encouraging sustained weight loss than mere advice and guidance from GPs, and research shows that these individuals...
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Depression link with stroke

04 November 2011
A study published in Stroke (here >>) has found that people who have suffered from depression at some point in their lives are about a third more likely to have a stroke than those who have not. The study, led by Dr Li-Qiang Qin from Soochow University (China),...
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