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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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Olympic sized accommodation for Rio

08 March 2013
In response to the expanding girth of the average football fan, organisers have arranged to provide double-sized seats to accommodate obese football fans during the upcoming World Cup championship. Under new disability laws in Brazil, passed specifically for the...
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Tobacco clamp-down in Bangladesh

05 March 2013
A new set of restrictions on tobacco have been put to parliament in Bangladesh, with new fines around smoking in public places, and changing packaging. The law on tobacco use will be tightened to increase the fines for smoking in public places (doubling the current...
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NCDs, MDGs and SDGs – Feb 2013

18 February 2013
[This is also available as a pdf here >>] This is an update of an earlier alert (October 2012 (here) – slightly updated in a blog on the BMJ website here), which described what is happening concerning the global framework on non-communicable diseases, and...
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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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All or nothing?

30 January 2013
In 2008, The Netherlands banned smoking in cafés, bars and clubs – but has since been criticised for taking a lax approach to enforcement, particularly since small bars (less than 70m2 and with no employees) have since been made exempt, which seems to have had...
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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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Delhi Communiqué

14 January 2013
On 11 January, the ministers of health of the BRICS countries – Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa, which between them cover 43 per cent of the global population – issued a statement, the Delhi Communiqué, on the importance of working...
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Resolving anxiety?

04 January 2013
As the new year begins, many people are making resolutions to give up smoking, and the UK government has launched a graphic anti-smoking TV advertisement to help encourage people to kick the habit. To bolster this, a study of about 500 people attending NHS Stop...
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