Bicycles will be prescribed by doctors for patients and all Britons will be offered free training on how to ride in a £2billion drive to get fat Britain ‘on its bike’. Free repair vouchers worth £50 will be handed out and there will be a massive expansion of cycle lanes as part of a revolution … Read more
Family doctors will be ‘weight coaches’ and sweets will be BANNED at checkouts as part of Boris Johnson’s fight against obesity GPs will be trained to help patients lose weight in Government anti-obesity drive Obese patients will be referred for weight management classes in the new plans Ministers hope the campaign will help people take … Read more
Record number of patients are being treated in hospital for obesity as admissions rise by a QUARTER in a year Hospitals in England are being flooded with 2,400 obese patients a day Figures show there were 876,000 admissions last year alone linked to obesity Nearly 700 children required hospital treatment because of their weight By Kate … Read more
Obesity campaigners have savaged the government’s plan to offer cut-price meals branding it a ‘green light for junk food’. Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced yesterday up to £10 a head will be cut off the bills of people eating out in August. But as names like Burger King confirmed themselves as part of the scheme obesity … Read more
Obesity timebomb in primary schools as damning figures reveal three in ten reception pupils are already too fat Figures show that one fifth of children aged four or five are now considered fat Nine out of ten of the worst areas affected by obesity timebomb are in the North New data shows 75 per cent of … Read more
Mr Motivator! Boris Johnson wants the nation to get fit to beat coronavirus in new anti-obesity drive that could include more gastric bands – as he says he is ‘as fit as a butcher’s dog’ and does PRESS-UPS in his office The Prime Minister is drawing up plans to speed up the battle against obesity … Read more
A mother’s obesity may raise liver cancer risks for generations to come, mouse study suggests Researchers fed mice a high-fat diet so they would become obese and then exposed them to a liver carcinogen The diet led to an over-expression of a gene that is abnormally expressed in various types of cancer This increased odds of the … Read more
Joe Wicks has been ‘tipped to lead new government physical education curriculum to help combat childhood obesity in the UK’ By Roxy Simons and Andrew Bullock For Mailonline Published: 01:54 BST, 31 May 2020 | Updated: 04:18 BST, 31 May 2020 Joe Wicks has allegedly been chosen to lead a new physical education curriculum on … Read more
Letting children make their own decisions about food and what they eat can lead to better nutrition and healthier lifelong eating behaviours, a study reports. The American Heart Association recommends reduced parental pressure on children to eat meals, a wider variety of healthy eating options and an overall ‘positive eating atmosphere’. Such factors encourage children … Read more
Statins may reduce the amount of harmful microbiota in the guts of obese people, according to a new study. Scientists have found that a type of gut bacteria known as Bact2 is far more common in obese people. These microbes are seen in just 3.9 per cent of lean individuals, but are present in more than … Read more