Weight-loss drugs and the supremacy of thinness
Anyone who has struggled with weight or eating disorders has dreamt of a magical fix. Now, it seems, we have…
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Wes Streeting can’t solve unemployment with weight-loss drugs
There is a link between obesity and worklessness, but this is not the solution.
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Could ultra-processed food be the new smoking?
A global study of nearly ten million people has shown the physical and mental health risks of UPFs.
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Is Labour’s Child Health Action Plan fit for purpose?
Public health experts discuss Keir Starmer’s proposals to improve children’s health and well-being.
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Why NHS patients are resorting to weight-loss surgery overseas
A case involving gastric-sleeve surgery in Turkey revealed the UK’s failures in tackling obesity.
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Parkrun founder: “It’s everybody’s right to be active and healthy”
Paul Sinton-Hewitt on why running with other people is an under-rated form of medicine.
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We need to look beyond economics on smoking, drinking and obesity
The tension between supporting big business and tackling the harm it causes bedevils public health policy.
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Why we need a new way of thinking about obesity
The former health minister and chair of Business for Health on why intervention is needed in a broken junk food…
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Exclusive: Half of Conservative councillors think the NHS has worsened since 2010
Forty-eight per cent of Tory local leaders say health services have deteriorated since their party came to power.
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“The ‘nanny state’ has given us a lot of freedom,” says England’s leading public health director
Greg Fell on Rishi Sunak’s cigarette ban, redefining good health, and individual responsibility.
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The BMI scale is outdated, simplistic and discriminatory
Using an out-of-date tool only exacerbates the systemic mistreatment of those deemed to be overweight.
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The BMI scale is a cheap and accessible starting point to prevent disease
While it is not a perfect measure of obesity, the tool is crucial for informing clinical decisions.
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Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale is dismal, claustrophobic and sometimes cruel
Brendan Fraser’s performance as an obese shut-in could win him an Oscar, but this bleak, suffocating film is hard to…
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Banish office cake? Give us a break – it’s January
The month is tough enough without resolutions and being shamed for small indulgences.
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The economic case for providing free school meals to more children
Expanding the scheme to families on Universal Credit would be a precisely targeted and effective intervention.
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Could we treat obesity with a pill?
Zandy Forbes’s genetics company may have a new treatment for a condition that costs the NHS billions.
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Calorie counts are not the answer to obesity
Such a blunt approach will do more harm than good.
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We need to eat better — but calorie counts are the worst way to go about it
Is it any wonder we speed-eat junk when food is no longer about enjoyment or conviviality?
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