Month Use of diabetes drugs rises 40 per cent in five years: official data The Telegraph, 30 July 2010 Prescriptions for drugs to treat diabetes have increased 40 per cent in five years as the obesity epidemic and improved diagnosis increases the number of people on the medicines. Anti-addiction drugs 'effective way to treat obesity' Daily Mail, 30 July 2010 Treating obese patients with a combination of two anti-addiction drugs could be an effective way to help them lose weight, scientists have revealed. Addiction drugs 'aid weight loss' BBC, 30 July 2010 A combination pill of two drugs used to treat addiction may help people lose weight, say US researchers. Can Surfing the Internet Help You Lose Weight? 29 July 2010 A new study by the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research finds that the more people log on to certain websites, the less weight they gain Can your doctor call you 'fat'? BBC, 29 July 2010 Doctors need to be more direct when they are dealing with overweight patients, according to the government's health minister. 'I'm doing it for fat people', says news raider The Telegraph, 29 July 2010 Paul Yarrow, the man nicknamed the news raider after appearing in the background of several live television reports, has dedicated his appearances to the overweight. Leading article: A fattist issue The Independent, 28 July 2010 What's in a name? The NHS should use the term fat instead of obese, a thinnish government health minister said yesterday. Some people, naturally, have been deeply offended, as would have been the minister, Anne Milton, if we had called her scrawny instead of thinnish. The overweight prefer more congenial terms: plump, chubby, tubby or big-boned. Or more politically correct notions; one local authority has been trying to introduce the idea of being "unhealthily weighted". Cut calories and the body fights it all the way... you won't lose weight, you'll just become malnourished 28 July 2010 NUTRITIONIST claims weight-loss formula of eating less & working out is based on 'lies' Call overweight people 'fat' instead of 'obese', says health minister Daily Mail, 28 July 2010 Doctors should stop mincing their words and tell fat people they are fat, the public health minister said yesterday. Pregnant worries BBC, 28 July 2010 Two mothers-to-be share their views on obesity |
