Month Health experts will propose fat tax on junk food Daily Mirror, 19 June 2010 Health experts will propose a new "fat tax" on junk food this week to help combat heart disease and obesity. The ten risk factors that could lead you to suffer a stroke Daily Mail, 18 June 2010 The newly identified checklist includes smoking, a pot belly and lack of exercise, the researchers found. Others include diabetes, high blood pressure and drinking too much. Victory for food lobby as MEPs reject new labelling rules The Independent, 16 June 2010 MEPs caused outrage yesterday by rejecting a colour-coded system of food labelling which health campaigners said would inform consumers about levels of fat and sugar and halt rocketing levels of obesity. Study: Obesity sinks women's rate of finding a sex partner, not men's USA Today, 16 June 2010 Scientists say being fat can be bad for the bedroom, especially if you're a woman. The blood-type diet: Weight loss need not be in vein The Telegraph, 16 June 2010 Your blood type might determine your ideal diet, says Celia Walden. Obesity and sexual health study offers new insight The Scotsman, 16 June 2010 OBESE single women are four times more likely to have an unplanned pregnancy than women of a healthy weight, despite having sex less often, researchers said yesterday. Lee Randall: Optical illusions in our war on obesity The Scotsman, 16 June 2010 WALKING down Princes Street over the weekend ? I know! What was I thinking? ? I counted rolls of flesh. People parading the street were so rotund that I wondered who on earth Panel: Obesity is century's greatest public health threat USA Today, 15 June 2010 Americans must slash the calories they consume from sugars and fats, eat a more plant-based diet and increase physical activity, a report sa ... Sorry, paying fat people a fiver to lose weight WON'T keep off the pounds Daily Mail, 15 June 2010 The idea of the NHS giving people money to lose weight while rationing life-saving cancer drugs sounds like something you couldn't make up. In fact, this is precisely what the NHS is considering. Your Health: New dads can be a cautious lot USA Today, 14 June 2010 When Armin Brott of Oakland became a dad, he stopped running yellow lights. Other new dads "will lose weight or stop smoking," he says. |
