The UK's childhood obesity strategy has been criticised again – this time in an analysis published in the British Medical Journal. Will all this flak put other EU countries off the idea?
A review of over 200 studies has revealed a substantial connection between obesity and 11 different types of cancer, prompting calls for further research and tougher efforts to tackle the obesity crisis.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has advised halving sugar intake advice from 10% of total calories to 5% of total calories in a new dietary guideline proposal.
An international sweep of health related websites has uncovered
more than a thousand sites that carry misleading information or
make false claims, the British Medical Journal reports in a recent
edition.
Global inequities in health is the number one ethical issue of our
age, argues bioethicist Peter Singer in this weeks issue of the
British Medical Journal....
