In-school nutrition programmes can reduce the chances of children suffering from childhood obesity.
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George’s medicine for health crisis is welcome, but not marvellous.
Food insecurity is not only a cause of bad food choices, it is a result of the economics and geographies of the food system.
So-called ‘healthy towns’ will address child obesity and dementia, but the real killer remains at large.
Some children show ‘food responsiveness’ and others show ‘satiety responsiveness’. It’s worth know which one yours displays.
It’s like putting the fox in charge of the hen house – food advertisers can make and break the rules as they like.
Over the last three years Kenya has seen marked improvements in its nutrition-related targets as a result of a national nutrition plan it has implemented.
Aren’t there huge health benefits to staying physically active, for adults? Why should it be any different for children?
Children’s fitness has been declining even faster over the past six years than in the decade before.
As more and more babies are delivered by cesarean section, we need to start investigating what that means for their long-term health.
Child obesity needs to be tackled at the age of six to avoid them becoming overweight teens and obese adults.
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…
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…
The World Health Organisation has defined obesity in children as a major threat to public health and the UK government treats it as a high priority. While we know a lot about the problem of childhood obesity…
Ravenous students, busy parents, nutrition professionals and school officials all have their own ideas about what belongs on the school lunch table. Plenty of criticism centers on the unhealthiness of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A fifth of four- to five-year-old children in England are overweight or obese, rising to one third by age ten to 11 years. This stark increase during the primary school years points to the potential contribution…
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Professor of Health Psychology, University of Surrey
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Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor of Health Sciences, University of South Australia
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Professor, Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Law, University of Liverpool
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Executive Manager of Food for Health Alliance ; Senior Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Human Development and Family Science, Oklahoma State University
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Professor Epidemiology & Equity in Public Health & Director, Institute Health Transformation, Deakin University
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Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Research Officer at Medical School, Swansea University
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Professor in Public Health Data Science, Swansea University
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Associate Professor in Obesity, UCL
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, University of South Australia
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Reader, Health and Education, University of Bolton
