Diabetes
People with type 2 diabetes need more support, say researchers
Research shows the old adage 'teach someone to fish' instead of giving them a fish, rings true when it comes to helping people with Type 2 diabetes.
Dec 19, 2017
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Health
Is your child's school an obesity risk?
Child obesity rates are skyrocketing globally. Young children spend the lion's share of their time in school, consuming a large portion of their daily calories there and developing lifelong eating habits and food preferences ...
Dec 13, 2017
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Health
Increased taxes on high fat and high sugar foods will help improve children's diets
Increasing the tax on high fat and high sugar foods will help improve children's diets. This is one of the recommendations from the British Psychological Society report "Changing behaviour: Childhood nutrition' published ...
Nov 13, 2017
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Dentistry
Better food choices near schools for healthier teeth
There's something endearing about the crooked, gapped-tooth smiles of children whose permanent teeth are coming in. While it's normal for adult teeth to show up at very different times, should we expect the same good oral ...
Oct 23, 2017
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Overweight & Obesity
Living near fast food outlets linked to weight gain in primary school children
Children with greater access to fast food outlets are more likely to gain weight compared to those living further away, new research suggests.
Sep 11, 2017
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Health
Is the food industry conspiring to make you fat?
The scent of baked goods wafts towards you as the supermarket doors glide open. Your stomach rumbles and your mouth waters at the sight and smell of so much food.
Aug 10, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How an 'urban zoo' project in Kenya is helping unpack the spread of disease
There are fears that Africa's next major modern disease crisis will emerge from its cities. Like Ebola, it may well originate from animals. Understanding where it would come from and how this could happen is critical to monitoring ...
Nov 17, 2016
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Overweight & Obesity
Study suggests genes and environment interact to increase risk of obesity
New research presented at this year's European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) meeting in Munich, Germany (12-16 September) shows that environmental and lifestyle factors have greatest effects on obesity in those ...
Sep 13, 2016
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Health
Family upbringing has no impact on people's food preferences
The effects of family upbringing on people's food preferences disappear as they start to make their own meal choices, to the point where they have no detectable impact by late adolescence, according to research carried out ...
Jul 8, 2016
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Health
Neighborhoods with more takeaways amplify social inequalities in unhealthy eating and obesity
People who live or work near to a greater number of takeaway outlets are more likely to eat more takeaway food and to be overweight, but new research indicates that neighbourhoods that are saturated with fast food outlets ...
May 11, 2016
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