The Chancellor’s recent announcement about a tax on sugary drinks is a step in the right direction towards fighting obesity, but we will need to use lot of different approaches […]
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Opinion: Obesity: stop accusing the poor of making bad choices
Pablo Monsivais, University of Cambridge Last month, the UK health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, called childhood obesity “a national emergency”, but the government has once again delayed publishing its strategy aimed […]
Children aren’t active enough in winter, especially at weekends
Researchers at the MRC Epidemiology Unit have called for children to be given more support to enable them to be more active during the winter, particularly at weekends, in response […]
The future of diabetes prevention: submissions open for PLoS Medicine special issue
As 2015 came to a close Professor Nick Wareham, Director of the MRC Epidemiology Unit, joined an multidisciplinary panel of experts in a PLoS Medicine editorial that took stock of […]