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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

A steering group volunteered to work on the basic Canadean Research document ‘Health and Nutrition in the Public Sector’ that you will all have received in May as a pdf attachment to an e-mail.

The gloomy forecasts came from Tim Marsh, a researcher with with National Heart Forum, who addressed congress delegates in Lyons, France.

The rise in spending would mean that the NHS would be spending 17% of its entire budget on the condition.

Health professionals from surgeons and psychiatrists to paediatricians and GPs have joined forces under the umbrella of the Academy of Royal Medical Colleges (AoMRC) to launch a campaign which has