UK to spend millions on anti-obesity campaign
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The government is to spend 75 million pounds on a campaign to encourage healthy lifestyles and counter what it calls an obesity epidemic in Britain.
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A guide for consumers and physicians to maximize health insurance coverage for the growing problem of obesity is scheduled for release Sunday.
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Leading physicians call for more sports medicines specialists to help UK athletes and to help tackle obesity.
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A charity is warning obesity could be the cause of 12,000 cases of cancer a year in the UK by 2010.
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Imposing a tax on unhealthy foods could prevent more than 3,000 deaths a year in the UK, researchers said today.
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Most British citizens could be obese by 2050, a new government report warns, and the nation's health secretary called Wednesday for a fundamental shift in the way the nation tackles obesity.
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Britain faces 'losing a generation' of children to obesity-related disease, the Duchess of York warns.
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To fight the epidemic of childhood obesity, the nation must launch a massive campaign enlisting virtually every aspect of society to reduce the amount of junk food children eat
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Britain faces &#39;losing a generation&#39; of children to obesity-related disease, the Duchess of York has warned. Speaking as guest editor of BBC Radio 4&#39;s flagship Today programme, Sarah Ferguson called on the government to take action and tackle the problem.
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Government seeking to counter childhood obesity by making cooking classes compulsory at schools
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WASHINGTON Sept. 30, 2004 - A wide-ranging effort involving parents, schools, communities and government is needed to turn the tide of childhood obesity, the Institute of Medicine said Thursday.
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Governments must wake up to the scourge of obesity or it will soon be too late to win the battle against the global epidemic, a senior World Health Organization official warned.
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Money spent on sports and exercise should be tax deductible as part of a national strategy to fight flab, say doctors in Britain who are grappling with one of the world's most rapidly growing obesity epidemics.    Ahead of a daylong conference Thursday on tackling obesity in primary care clinics, the Royal College of General Practitioners called on the government to consider tax breaks to make exercise more accessible and affordable to everybody...
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The UKâs Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has published a new food and health manifesto, setting out the industryâs efforts to help in the fight against obesity.
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Thousands of children across Australia are to be weighed, measured and interviewed about their diet under a national plan to tackle obesity, the government said.
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Rising levels of obesity in Britain could lead to as many as 12,000 new cases of weight-related cancer each year by the end of the decade, a leading charity warned on Tuesday.
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The costs associated with having breast cancer can amount to thousands of pounds, a charity says.