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Health and fitness professionals can receive childhood obesity prevention training thanks to a new course from the Weight Management Centre.
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14 Jun 2005
The inaugural National Childhood Obesity Week was launched today (5 July) by National Obesity Forum (NOF) and social enterprise Mind, Exercise, Nutrition...Do it! (MEND)
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05 Jul 2010
Obesity and ageing have the same effects
on the body, with some impacts being
irreversible, according to new research
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Obesity should be classed as a form of premature ageing, due to it predisposing people to acquiring
potentially life-altering diseases normally seen in older individuals.
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04 Mar 2020
Official figures from the Department of Health show that an increasing number of boys and girls under the age of 11 are now obese.
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29 Apr 2005
For the tenth year running, UK hospital admissions for obesity in women were
much higher than for those in men, according to figures from the Health and
Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC).
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27 Feb 2014
The New Local Government Network (NLGN) has called for all councils in the UK to adopt an obesity strategy.
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27 Mar 2008
There were more than one million admissions made to NHS hospitals during
2019-20, where obesity was a factor.
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24 May 2021
Public Health England CEO Duncan Selbie has called on the NHS to prioritise the prevention of
obesity, cardiovascular disease and smoking in its new long-term plan.
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10 Sep 2018
Local councils in England have warned that government cuts to public health funding could
thwart efforts to tackle obesity.
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18 Jul 2016
Obesity is a disease which cannot be reliably prevented or cured with current
frontline methods, according to a feature published in The Lancet.
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13 Mar 2015
People with obesity have a significantly lower number of neurotransmitters dedicated to
generating pleasurable sensations than people of a normal weight, according to a study,
which could explain why they have difficulty restraining their eating.
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06 Mar 2015
The prospect of the European Court of Justice ruling obesity as a disability due
to an escalated employment tribunal is distracting focus from the key message
of how to combat the condition, according to ukactive CEO David Stalker.
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18 Jun 2014
There has been a four-fold increase in the number of children admitted to hospital for problems
related to obesity in England and Wales between 2000 and 2009. In 2009 there were 3,806 children
admitted to hospital for obesity-related conditions - compared with a mere 872 in 2000.
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13 Jun 2013
Without government action, economic growth will continue to be hampered by the rising cost
of obesity on society says a report from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
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21 Dec 2023
Will the classification of obesity as a disease in the US bring better treatment, or will it take the onus to lose weight away from the individual?
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Leeds has become the first UK city to successfully lower the rates of childhood obesity –
according to data from the national child measurement programme (NCMP).
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01 May 2019
An independent research company has declared that claims that childhood obesity has hit epidemic levels are “mere speculation”.
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23 Feb 2005
The government must take bold steps to make inroads in tackling Britain’s burgeoning
childhood obesity and inactivity problem, which has ballooned after more than a decade of
policy inertia.
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26 Jan 2016
The UK is the fourth worst country in the world for cancer caused by obesity in
men, a recent study has discovered.
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03 Dec 2014
Accepting obesity as something to be catered for, rather than a tide to be
turned, would go against everything the health and industry believes in,
according to Health Club Management editor Kate Cracknell in her August leader
column.
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07 Aug 2014
School closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic will exacerbate the epidemic of childhood
obesity in the US, according to public health scientists at Columbia University's Mailman
School of Public Health.
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12 Apr 2020
The Obesity Awareness and Solutions Trust (TOAST) has joined forces with leisure operators this week (12-18 March) to highlight the problem of obesity in the UK.
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16 Mar 2006
More than one-fifth of children starting primary school in Scotland are at risk of being
obese or overweight, according to new figures.
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16 Dec 2016
ukactive CEO David Stalker has warned of the dangers of focusing public health policy
solely on tackling obesity, after a trio of scientists said it was time to "bust the myth"
about exercise.
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23 Apr 2015
Encouraging people to improve their diet and exercise more may not be enough to
overcome the obesity epidemic, according to several new research papers.
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12 Feb 2015
The United States childhood obesity crisis may be lessening, according to new
research released by the government.
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14 Aug 2013
The European Court of Justice is considering a test case which could oblige
employers to treat obesity as a disability, potentially leaving them with a duty to
make adjustments to work environments.
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13 Jun 2014
New research from the National Heart Forum (NHF) has suggested that an increase in obesity levels among children across the UK may be starting to "level off".
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04 Nov 2009
Research carried out by Indiana University in the US has revealed that an increased amount of exercise may be more beneficial to some people than to others in tackling obesity.
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28 Oct 2010
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Now mental health is the number one reason for people to join a
health club, do fitness professionals need a grounding in counselling
to offer a more holistic service? Kath Hudson asks the experts
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As more people join clubs to support their mental
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take a holistic approach. Kath Hudson shares useful
tools discussed at the ACE summit on mental health
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