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

Urban green spaces

26 April 2013
The journal Psychological Science has published a fascinating study about the connection between physical environment and human health. It has long been acknowledged that the physical environment has a major impact on psychological and mental health and wellbeing....
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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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Using football for health

09 April 2013
As C3 reported in an Alert in 2012 (here >> ), football club FC Barcelona has a history of working to kick the smoking habit among its supporters, first banning smoking across all Barça facilities and then launching a Quit Smoking with Barça initiative....
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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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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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Stay active, stay sparky!

14 March 2013
Data on over 9,000 people has been used to investigate the effects of lifelong leisure-time physical activity on the brain. Researchers from King’s College, London, gathered information from people in interviews at ages 11, 16, 33, 42, 46 and 50, including asking...
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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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NCDs and low-carbon development

15 February 2013
C3 attended a one-day conference on 12 February, entitled ‘preventing global NCDs through low-carbon development’ at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, whose main message was that health/NCD arguments really can help to shore up the arguments...
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Obesity – still a risk for older people

06 February 2013
New research from Columbia University seems to challenge the ‘obesity paradox’ in the United States: that having high BMI is a health risk up to the age of about 65, but thereafter it seems not to shorten life expectancy, and may even raise it – postulations...
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