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In her IHRSA 15 keynote, psychologist Kelly McGonigal spoke about the science of willpower and how the health and fitness industry can seek to harness it
HCM issue 4 2015
Health experts are calling for greater wellbeing services to be made available for would-be
mothers, amid findings that children born to overweight mothers are at greater risk of
health problems in later life.
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17 Feb 2015
David Cameron has outlined plans for tough new measures that could see obese people on
sickness benefits have their income cut if they refuse treatment for the condition.
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16 Feb 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 percentage of US adults who are obese increased in 2014 to reach 27.7 per cent – up
from 27.1 per cent in 2013 and 25.5 per cent in 2008, according to the Gallup-Healthways
Well-being Index study.
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30 Jan 2015
Physical inactivity is killing twice as many Europeans as obesity, according to a
landmark report from the University of Cambridge.
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15 Jan 2015
Almost two-thirds of people do not know how many calories the average person
needs to maintain a healthy weight, according to new research.
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08 Jan 2015
Insults from shop assistants, jibes from passers-by and abuse from teenagers
are just some of the humiliations that are plunging overweight people further
into ill health, research has found.
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06 Jan 2015
As part of the ongoing push across the physical activity sector to engage
youngsters in exercise from an early age, leisure trust Freedom Leisure is to
train its staff in providing fitness classes and gym sessions tailored to teenagers.
news •
23 Dec 2014
Employers across Europe may be forced to make adjustments to work
environments to accommodate overweight employees, after the European Court
of Justice (ECJ) ruled that obesity can constitute a disability within European
law.
news •
18 Dec 2014
The vice president of Downsize Fitness in the US talks to Kate Cracknell about transforming the lives of an overweight population
HCM issue 1 2015
The UK is the fourth worst country in the world for cancer caused by obesity in
men, a recent study has discovered.
news •
03 Dec 2014
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
Doctors suggest a Mediterranean diet may be a better way to tackle obesity than
calorie counting.
news •
17 Nov 2014
A pioneering Danish health scheme that enforces a series of strict lifestyle
changes is being touted as a potential solution to the global childhood obesity
epidemic.
news •
10 Nov 2014
Les Mills has become the latest fitness brand to set its sights on tackling youth
inactivity with the launch of its new children’s programme Born To Move.
news •
06 Nov 2014
Kath Hudson offers an overview of the groups and schemes pitching to help tackle the UK’s obesity crisis
HCM issue 10 2014
Combining aerobic exercise with resistance training could prove to be the most
effective answer to the growing problem of teenage obesity, according to a new
study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.
news •
24 Sep 2014
Around a quarter of preventable cancers in the United States are thought to be
impacted by people either being obese or overweight, or being physically
inactive, according to the American Association for Cancer Research's new
cancer progress report.
news •
19 Sep 2014
Health messages and pictures of what a healthy and unhealthy BMI look like
should be combined, according to researchers who believe that as the rest of
the global population’s obesity levels rise, we may all lose sight of what a
healthy body actually looks like.
news •
15 Sep 2014
People facing discrimination because of their size may be more likely to put on
weight, according to a new study published in the journal Obesity.
news •
12 Sep 2014
The brain could potentially be retrained to prefer healthy foods, helping
people with weight loss and healthy eating plans, according to a small-scale pilot
study published in the journal Nutrition & Diabetes.
news •
05 Sep 2014
A group of leading GPs and health experts have called on the government to
create an emergency taskforce to quell the rising epidemic of childhood obesity.
news •
01 Sep 2014
Losing weight and reducing BMI levels could lead to increased
brain power, according to a new study published in the Journal of Clinical
Endocrinology and Metabolism.
news •
28 Aug 2014
Around 12,000 cases of cancer each year are caused by people being
overweight or obese, according to a new study published in the Lancet medical
journal.
news •
14 Aug 2014
English football club Bristol Rovers wants to help its fans emulate the fitness of
its players, through an innovative community initiative which sees supporters
swap half-time pies for weekly exercise.
news •
14 Aug 2014
Britain is in the grip of a perilous health crisis, with the average person failing to
follow seven out of eight basic health guidelines, according to a new report.
news •
05 Aug 2014
The CEO of Life Leisure talks to Kate Cracknell about challenging the public health commissioners, and about totally rethinking the model of fitness facilities
HCM issue 8 2014
Consumer research company The Hartman Group has published an infographic
of ten defining attributes of ‘health and wellness,’ as perceived by millennials.
news •
22 Jul 2014
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.
news •
13 Jun 2014
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