The hospital treated 24 babies and toddlers under three years old for obesity in 24, up from 15 in 2014, four in 2013, two in 2012 and just one in 2011.
The new guidelines, which are the first since 1995, recommend it is safest not to drink more than 14 units per week to keep health risks from drinking alcohol to a low level.
The report, from Cancer Research UK and the UK Health Forum, also predicts that if current trends continue almost three in four adults will be overweight or obese by 2034 and more people will be ob
There are also thought to be 549,000 people with undiagnosed Type 2 diabetes in the UK according to the figures extracted from GP patient data.
Asked for their views on the food they are served, school meals are frequently "unhealthy’, ‘fatty’ or ‘soggy’, according to the primary school pupils who eat them.
The research shows that at age five, poor children almost twice as likely to be obese compared with their richer peers, with 6.6% of children in the poorest fifth of the sample classed as obese, wh
The report, entitled ‘The Health of the 51%: Women’, recommends that the Government includes obesity in its national risk planning and also encourages a greater degree of personal responsibility.
This year, the 2015 edition reflects some of the big issues that currently face the sector – universal infant free schools meals (UIFSM), the standard of food in hospitals and the threat to meals o
It looks at the benefits that meals on wheels provide – from both a physical and mental health standpoint – and analyses the extent to which the service has been affected over the last five years b
The Feeding Britain report - A route map to ending hunger as we know it in the United Kingdom calls on the Government to introduce an equivalent to the Cobra committee - used in response to emergen