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New NHS plans home in on diabetes

Written by Edward Waddell
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15th Sep 2017 - 11:15

Claiming every person over 40 should have an NHS diabetes check, the plans follow news that almost five million people in the UK have diabetes, which “is threatening to bankrupt the NHS” said Tam F

Action urged to make food, drink packs easier to open

Written by David Foad
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11th Sep 2017 - 10:22

They met at Reading University to review progress on the issue and were told that a new standard (ISO 17480) had been officially recognised and testing against was already underway.

Obesity in Scotland to be discussed at conference

Written by Anonymous (not verified)
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4th Sep 2017 - 11:51

The seminar will discuss the Scottish Governments’ soon-to-be-published Diet and Obesity Strategy and Physical Activity Delivery Plan, as well as the challenges associated with the introduction of

Study finds 3-a-day fruit and veg is ‘good enough’

Written by David Foad
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30th Aug 2017 - 07:00

Researchers, who announced their findings at a European Society of Cardiology Congress in Barcelona and have published them in The Lancet, say: “Higher fruit, vegetable, and legume consumption is a

PHE turns childhood obesity focus on cutting calories

Written by David Foad
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18th Aug 2017 - 07:00

PHE will now consider the evidence on children’s calorie consumption and set the ambition for the calorie reduction programme to remove excess calories from the foods children consume the most.