Underpinning such basic standards would be more detailed dietary regulation tailored for each of the three major parts of the public sector – schools, hospitals and care homes.
The figure represents an increase of 132,000 people diagnosed with diabetes over the last year. A further 850,000 people are thought to have undiagnosed Type 2 diabetes.
Called ‘Measuring Up: The Medical Profession's Prescription for the Nation's Obesity Crisis’, the report follows a six-month inquiry by a steering group comprising representatives from 20 of the Ro
In its cover story ‘Food for thought: Eat your way to dementia’, the journal points out that the science linking poor diet with obesity and diabetes is well established.
And in a report on the BBC website he is reported as claiming that lack of funding means that severely overweight people in Wales are denied treatment until they are already ill with complications
On August 23rd it reports that between 2006-7 and 2011-12 the number of gastric bypass operations increased from 858 to 5,407, according to figures from the NHS Health and Social Care Information C
The link between being overweight and problems such as Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and coronary heart disease is fairly uncontested, even if the data needed to prove it is still being comp