Is the food industry conspiring to make you fat?
Bombarded with unhealthy offerings by the food industry, we blame and shame ourselves for gaining weight. But is it really our fault, or are we being "entrapped?"
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Articles sur Child obesity
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Why young women need to be given a louder voice in the obesity debate
The people at risk are the ones who need to be listened to.
How 3D printing may help cut childhood obesity by getting children active
We need children to get hold of their fitness levels - literally.
Childhood obesity plan forgets about babies and toddlers
To combat childhood obesity, we need to start from day one.
A healthy diet is cheaper than junk food but a good diet is still too expensive for some
Many people believe eating healthily is expensive – and more costly than buying junk food. But our new research shows this isn't the case.
What’s driving sub-Saharan Africa’s malnutrition problem?
Food insecurity is not only a cause of bad food choices, it is a result of the economics and geographies of the food system.
The NHS is building towns to make us healthier, but it’s no cure for inequality
So-called 'healthy towns' will address child obesity and dementia, but the real killer remains at large.
Understanding your child’s appetite is key to preventing obesity in later life
Some children show 'food responsiveness' and others show 'satiety responsiveness'. It's worth know which one yours displays.
Junk food advertisers put profits before children’s health – and we let them
It’s like putting the fox in charge of the hen house – food advertisers can make and break the rules as they like.
Poor fitness is a bigger threat to child health than obesity
Children's fitness has been declining even faster over the past six years than in the decade before.
Do kids born by C-section have a higher risk of chronic disease? A new study looks at the evidence
As more and more babies are delivered by cesarean section, we need to start investigating what that means for their long-term health.
Health Check: how to get kids to eat healthy food
Hippocrates said circa 400BC that “food should be our medicine and medicine should be our food”. He would probably turn in his grave if he saw the amount of highly processed, sugary food and drinks marketed…
Two-hour screen limit for kids is virtually impossible to enforce
It’s almost universally recommended that for optimal physical and mental health, children engage in 60 minutes of physical activity each day and limit the time they spend watching TV, playing computer…
Prizes for primary children who eat most fruit and veg make them healthier
Poor nutrition is a primary cause behind the rising cost of health care in many developed countries. Although pupils have good knowledge of what is healthy and what is not, that does not always translate…
Australia vying to be world champion of inactivity
If we could go back 100 years in a time machine, what would kids be like? They’d be shorter, leaner, probably dirtier and less well-fed — but would they be fitter? It turns out we actually have a beautiful…
Let’s put the ‘school’ back into free school meals and teach the importance of healthy habits
With the greatest will in the world, packed lunches often end up full of whatever happens to be left in the fridge or what can be grabbed on a tightly scheduled school run. But this can all now change…
Obesity is now so normal that many parents can’t see if their child is too fat
We’ve all heard those phrases that denote a certain blindness to the passage of time. “She looks as young as the day I met her” husbands say of their wives 50 years into married life, or “haven’t they…
Calling young girls ‘fat’ increases obesity risk
Labelling a young girl as “fat” increases the risk she will become obese in later life, according to a recent study. More…
Punishing students with exercise is reckless political posturing
The London Olympics. Remember them? Not so long ago we were talking about their legacy, hoping it would inspire a new physically active generation. A timely legacy, given children in the UK are among the…
Childhood obesity predicted from kindergarten
Children who are overweight in kindergarten are four times as likely as normal-weight children to become obese by year eight…
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Professor of Health Psychology, University of Surrey
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Professor of Health Sciences, University of South Australia
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Reader, Department for Health, University of Bath
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Professor, School of Public Health and Social Work; School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Queensland University of Technology
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Assistant Professor, University of Bath
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Professor of Public Health, Newcastle University
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Associate Professor, Health Promotion Evaluation Unit, University of Western Australia
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Lecturer in Sport and Education, University of Bath
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Reader in Sports Science (Clinical Physiology), University of Essex
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Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Essex
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Professor of Economics and Director of BLUE, the Behavioural Laboratory, University of Edinburgh
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of Economics, University of Bath
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Executive Manager of the Obesity Policy Coalition; Senior Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne
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Director/Referral and Assessment Clinic, Centre for Child and Adolescent Related Disorders, University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer, Strathclyde University
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