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NCDs in China

27 July 2011
A new report from the World Bank, Towards a Healthy and Harmonious Life in China: Stemming the Rising Tide of Non-communicable Diseases, feeds into the Ministry of Health’s three-step process to tackle NCDs, step two of which is implementing analytical studies...
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Risk factors and Alzheimer’s

20 July 2011
Evidence is growing that tackling the major risk factors for NCDs such as CVD, type 2 diabetes and cancer can also greatly impact the rising tide of Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. According to research that analysed data from around the...
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Infant/toddler exercise

13 July 2011
As C3 has reported recently (click here >>), the US Institute of Medicine has recommended that parents become more aware of rising levels of childhood obesity and assume responsibility for ensuring their children avoid becoming over weight. Responding to...
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UK: Childhood Obesity Week

08 July 2011
This is National Childhood Obesity Week in the United Kingdom, and a study released on 4 July highlights both that young people take far less physical activity than the government recommends and also that parents typically overestimate the amount of daily exercise...
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Sedentary lifestyle risk looms

06 July 2011
Prospective longitudinal studies have shown that lifestyle factors such as overconsumption of sugar or alcohol can have a marked impact on health over time, reads an editorial in the BMJ. There is now evidence that prolonged periods of sitting – lack of physical...
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An escalating epidemic

01 July 2011
The Lancet has published a new WHO and Gates Foundation-funded study into the extent of diabetes worldwide, a difficult task as, as is pointed out in an editorial in the journal, ‘there is no worldwide surveillance network for diabetes, as there is for communicable...
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Curbing childhood obesity

24 June 2011
In a recently released report, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) urges parents, doctors and carers to educate themselves about childhood weight issues and take responsibility for reducing rising levels of childhood obesity. In doing so, the IOM acknowledges the...
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Does your diet affect your kids?

08 June 2011
A study of 165 pre-pubertal overweight children (average age eight), published in the journal Pediatrics, has addressed a to-date largely neglected area of research into child obesity:  the effects of changes in parental diet and physical activity programmes centred...
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Prescribing physical activity?

03 June 2011
Research reported at the American College of Sports Medicine’s 58th Annual Meeting and 2nd World Congress on Exercise is Medicine suggests that student doctors are more likely to be amenable to prescribing physical activity if they are themselves active and...
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Brisk walking to tackle cancer

26 May 2011
A new study has found that following guidelines on moderate exercise can help men diagnosed with prostate cancer. Power-walking for at least three hours a week ‘may delay or even prevent progression of their disease’, according to the lead researcher of the...
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