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The parents of Kaylea Titford, a disabled 16-year-old girl, have been found guilty of her death
by allowing her to become fatally obese.
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08 Feb 2023
The Scottish Government is to plough £6m into tackling childhood obesity.
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16 Apr 2008
Sheffield City Trust, the wellbeing charity which manages 11 sports and leisure venues through its
Sheffield International Venues (SIV) arm, has become the first leisure operator in the UK to
introduce a sugar tax on unhealthy fizzy drinks.
news •
22 Jul 2016
The worldwide cost of obesity is about the same as
smoking or the war on terror
and more than both alcoholism and climate
change, according to new research.
news •
20 Nov 2014
Washington DC city councillors have approved a controversial “fitness tax” on
businesses such as health clubs and yoga studios, despite strong opposition
from activity advocates.
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26 Jun 2014
During the last week in August, Perth & Kinross Leisure (PKL) held LiveACTIVE Week, designed to promote health and fitness.
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06 Sep 2006
The Mayor of London is to establish a collaborative London-wide body to reduce levels of childhood obesity in the capital in line with government targets.
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08 Feb 2008
People who walk to work are around 40 per cent less likely to have diabetes
than those who travel by car, UK-led research has found.
news •
07 Aug 2013
SkillsActive has welcomed the positive results shown in a recent government report on sport and
regeneration but also calls for more to be done to continue the Olympic legacy.
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22 Jul 2013
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed a mathematical model that predicts
how weight and body fat in children respond to changes in diet and physical activity, with the results of the
study appearing in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology.
news •
30 Jul 2013
Obesity levels of adults in developing nations has almost quadrupled to an
estimated one billion since 1980, according to a report from a UK think tank.
news •
06 Jan 2014
Researchers at Brown University in the US have found that people with higher scores for
dispositional mindfulness – the inherent trait of being aware of one’s present thoughts
and feelings – are significantly more likely than people with low scores to have healthy
glucose levels.
news •
29 Feb 2016
City commuters are being offered free metro tickets in exchange for a quick workout as
part of an innovative public health project.
news •
23 Jul 2015
Walking regularly could help to prevent the deaths of tens of thousands of
people every year, according to a new report.
news •
07 Oct 2013
Fitness enthusiasts in Washington DC have hit out at council plans to impose a
‘fitness tax’ on wellness facilities, warning the move could price poor people out
of physical activity.
news •
10 Jun 2014
Andy Burnham, mayor of Manchester and former Labour Party leadership hopeful, has
thrown his weight behind the city’s plan to increase the physical activity of its residents.
news •
31 Jul 2017
Researchers from the University of Essex and London Metropolitan University have found that the measures of strength in children have fallen "dramatically" over the past decade.
news •
23 May 2011
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).
news •
27 Feb 2014
New research shows that American people have become more active over the last
decade, although these improvements have done little to stem the nation's
obesity problem.
news •
11 Jul 2013
Plans for a new £37m healthy living centre in New Cross Gate, south east London, have been approved by the London Borough of Lewisham. The development is part of a government funded initiative to regenerate 39 'poverty postcodes' in London.
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11 Aug 2008
iZone - a new youth health and fitness concept targeted at people between the ages of 11 and 15 years old - has been unveiled at Swansea's LC leisure complex.
news •
01 Sep 2010
Scientists have shed new light on the challenges facing exercise professionals in getting
the population moving, after new research showed that obesity causes people to see
distances as farther than they actually are.
news •
15 Feb 2016
The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has released
guidance for helping overweight and obese people to achieve and maintain a
healthier weight.
news •
18 Oct 2013
A new study in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) claims that physical exercise has little impact on obesity in young children.
news •
06 Oct 2006
Fred Turok, chair of the Fitness Industry Association (FIA), has pledged that the health and fitness industry would double any investment made by the government to improve the nation’s health.
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15 May 2008
A new strategy designed to improve the health of residents in New York City, US, has been announced by city mayor Michael Bloomberg and health commissioner Thomas Farley.
news •
17 Sep 2009
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).
news •
01 May 2019
Young people whose “fat gene” is located in an unusual part of their chromosome chain
are more likely to binge-eat, according to a recent study by researchers of The University
of Queensland.
news •
07 Aug 2015
Expectant mothers should undertake 150 minutes of moderate physical activity spread
throughout the week, according to guidance released by UK Chief Medical Officers.
news •
06 Jul 2017
People significantly underestimate the amount of activity they do according to a
Norwegian study. However, it’s not BMI which causes people to exaggerate, but
sex, age and education.
news •
20 Jan 2014
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