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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
The Welsh Assembly Government has launched a new four-year strategy designed to increase the number of people walking and cycling as part of their daily lives.
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24 Feb 2009
COVID-19 has a disproportionate impact on young diabetics
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The British Medical Council (BMA) has called for tough action to stem the rise in childhood obesity.
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30 Jun 2005
A study by Cancer Research has revealed that around 40 per cent of cancers in
women and 45 per cent of those in men could be prevented by healthier lifestyles.
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07 Dec 2011
Harm Tegelaars, the recently appointed president of the European Health & Fitness Association (EHFA), has called for EU support to enable the fitness industry to contribute in the European-wide fight against obesity.
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18 Oct 2007
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 School Food Trust is set to launch Let’s Get Cooking – a national network of clubs to encourage children of all ages and non-cooking parents to cook nutritious meals.
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23 Jul 2007
Consumer research company The Hartman Group has published an infographic
of ten defining attributes of ‘health and wellness,’ as perceived by millennials.
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22 Jul 2014
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
A pilot programme to tackle the issue of obesity in children diagnosed as either overweight or clinically obese has been a success in Northern Ireland.
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11 Apr 2006
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.
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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
During the last week in August, Perth & Kinross Leisure (PKL) held LiveACTIVE Week, designed to promote health and fitness.
news •
06 Sep 2006
With a recent study showing that more
than 60 per cent of the adult population in Dubai is overweight, the Dubai Health
Authority (DHA) has drawn up a
behaviour change plan in an effort to get
residents to eat more healthily and
take more exercise.
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05 Feb 2016
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
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.
news •
22 Jul 2013
Independent mental health hospital Capio Nightingale in London has launched a
dedicated weight
management and obesity service. The psychological treatment programme will
aim to offer a non-
surgical, sustainable treatment to address the root causes of overeating.
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24 Jul 2013
Health and fitness companies in South Korea are expanding their efforts in an attempt to reduce the country’s increasing obesity rates.
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14 Mar 2006
The number of overweight people in the world has overtaken the number of malnourished for the first time, with a billion people now considered heavier than advised – almost one in six of the world’s population.
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24 Aug 2006
Walking regularly could help to prevent the deaths of tens of thousands of
people every year, according to a new report.
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07 Oct 2013
Is the health and fitness sector responding to the ever-more diverse needs of its potential customer base?
HCM issue 1 2013
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.
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14 Aug 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.
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31 Jul 2017
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.
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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
Advice on diet and exercise could help cut patients’ chances of
developing bowl cancer, new research published by the British Medical
Journal has found.
news •
14 Mar 2014
Freedom Leisure is encouraging people in Sussex to collectively lose a ton in weight during October, and will donate £1 to Diabetes UK for every pound of fat lost – a total of £2,224.
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03 Oct 2006
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
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Consumers’ growing love of strength training is to be welcomed, as this long-neglected modality has a renaissance, however, it’s vital we continue to make the case for cardio
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MD of leisure, health and wellbeing, Places Leisure Places Leisure“We need to make it automatic that when people go to their doctor, they’re offered exercise rather than medication where appropriate”
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healthcare? Leaders in the sector share their thoughts
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With the industry experiencing a huge swing towards strength training, researchers recommend continuing to make the case for cardio
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