Month Fertile Over 40 Fox News, 22 July 2010 Most of these women don't look a day over 25, but between medical advances, keeping fit and healthy, and a little bit of luck, the number of women having children after the age of 40 is becoming a growing trend Junk food loving teacher sheds 8 stone after becoming school's head of PE Daily Mail, 22 July 2010 The mother-of-two says she realised she was setting a bad example to her pupils as she tried to motivate them to exercise while being eight stone overweight herself. Overweight people should pay 'fat tax' to cover healthcare costs, German MP says The Telegraph, 22 July 2010 Overweight people should pay higher taxes in order to cover the extra costs they create for German's healthcare system, a conservative MP has said. 'Cut down on meat to lose weight' BBC, 22 July 2010 Eating less meat may be the key to keeping a healthy weight, a study suggests. Poor diet and obesity blamed as womb cancer cases hit record level The Scotsman, 22 July 2010 THE number of women diagnosed with womb cancer in the UK is at its highest level for more than 30 years, new figures have shown. Cancer boy branded overweight for putting on two pounds during chemotherapy Daily Mirror, 21 July 2010 A little boy fighting cancer was told he was overweight after putting on TWO POUNDS during chemotherapy. Cancer boy, 5, is told by NHS that he is 'too fat'...and runs the risk of getting cancer Daily Mail, 21 July 2010 Schoolboy Lewis Mighty put on 2lb following gruelling chemotherapy treatment but medics branded him overweight and suggested he should take up swimming. Julie Burchill: If Eamonn can't see the funny side of fatness, he should lay off the pies The Independent, 20 July 2010 I know that we were meant to don black armbands and fly the flags at half-mast when Dawn French and Lenny Henry went bang, but personally I was pleased. I've had beef (and how fitting is that word, considering how fat we both are!) with that bitch since way back in the day, when I refused to be in a 1994 South Bank Show. This was some sort of celebration of morbid obesity ? sorry, a "personal celebration of Big Women, drawing on art, photography, fashion, film and sculpture to ask why Big Women, who were revered and celebrated throughout the history of art, are now ignored by today's culture." Industry drools over China's dieting urge The Financial Times, 20 July 2010 The merest glance at a Weight Watchers meeting in China makes clear that a model that works in the American cornbelt cannot be transplanted wholesale to Asia. Chinese dieters are just not fat enough Industry drools over China?s dieting urge 20 July 2010 The merest glance at a Weight Watchers meeting in China makes clear that a model that works in the American cornbelt cannot be transplanted wholesale to Asia. Chinese dieters are just not fat enough |
