EU to Start Taking Obesity Seriously
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The European Union said Thursday it will bring the food and advertising industry together with health officials to contain the increasing problem of obesity in Europe, where one out of every four children is obese.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 19 (IPS) - The European Union must step up its efforts to  ensure that âgender mainstreamingâ is central to its development  agenda, leading development groups are urging.
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Schools should weigh and measure all children annually to determine whether they&#39;re overweight, and the government must set nutritional standards for brand-name foods and drinks
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An over-arching policy for supermarkets is needed to tackle obesity, waste and climate change, a report says.
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The European Union's food safety watchdog may start checking whether food manufacturers are telling the truth when they claim food is "low fat" or "high in vitamins," the agency's head said on Monday.
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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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The obesity epidemic needs to be tackled in the same way as climate change, says a top nutritional scientist.
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Finnish scientists have said a formula added to food could extend the lives of obese people by 20 percent, the BBC reported Sunday.
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Schools, food makers, government agencies and families themselves must work together to reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity, a panel of scientists said Thursday.
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The European Union's health chief  wants to introduce tougher food labeling rules to combat the  growing problem of obesity across Europe, but is facing stiff  political and industrial opposition.
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Tax relief should be offered on sports activities to help combat growing obesity rates, doctors say.
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The longer immigrants live in the United States, the more likely they are to take on what has become an increasingly common American characteristic: obesity.
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European Union officials this week will aim to reduce corporate influence and make polluting more expensive.
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Children are main focus of government's obesity strategy to pay overweight people to get slim
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Parents in Scotland are urged to live healthier lifestyles in a bid to address childhood obesity.
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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 European Commissioner and Italian minister led calls on Wednesday for the European Union to introduce obligatory &quot;Made in...&quot; labels for some products imported into the bloc.