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"Growing Up in Scotland: Overweight, obesity and activity
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Posted 3 years ago #
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Obviously the monetary amounts are open to question but this kind of thing on steroids gets new roads built...
Posted 3 years ago # -
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As the director of the Energy Metabolism Laboratory at Tufts University, Massachusetts, Susan Roberts has spent much of the past two decades studying ways to fight the obesity epidemic that continues to plague much of the western world.
But time and again, Roberts and other obesity experts around the globe have found themselves faced with a recurring problem. While getting overweight individuals to commit to shedding pounds is often relatively straightforward in the short term, preventing them from regaining the lost weight is much more challenging.
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/oct/30/burn-baby-burn-the-new-science-of-metabolism
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Pedestrian-friendly cities have lower rates of diabetes and obesity
A review of 170 studies finds consistent evidence that people are less likely to be obese or have diabetes if they live in cities where walking and cycling is safe and convenientDiabetes and obesity rates can be reduced by transforming towns and cities into places where it is safe and convenient to walk, cycle or take public transport rather than drive.
Gillian Booth at the University of Toronto and her colleagues scoured more than 170 previous studies and discovered consistent evidence that people who live in areas where walking and cycling are practical options are more active and less likely to have diabetes or obesity.
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Booth says the study shows there is a role for prevention as well as treatment with these conditions, and that “unchecked urban sprawl” that leaves people reliant on cars is part of the problem that needs to be tackled. She believes the solution is a package of measures including higher-density living with shops and services within walking distance, more bike and footpaths and better public transport.“People will be more active if they can, if they have more of that infrastructure close by them,” she says. “There’s consistent evidence that if you have those options available, you will be more likely to be physically active.”
Posted 2 years ago # -
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People with type 2 diabetes have a higher risk of 57 other health conditions, including cancer, kidney disease and neurological illnesses, according to the most comprehensive study of its kind.
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Millions of people worldwide have the condition, which is linked to being overweight or inactive
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Posted 2 years ago # -
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Kevin was the first scientist to prove that UPF causes weight gain.
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Posted 2 years ago # -
@fimm A review of 170 studies finds consistent evidence that people are less likely to be obese or have diabetes if they live in cities where walking and cycling is safe and convenient
Diabetes and obesity rates can be reduced by transforming towns and cities into places where it is safe and convenient to walk, cycle or take public transport rather than drive.
My next door neighbours all have bikes*. These stay in yard hidden from view. During lockdown we helped get one back on road. Was used a couple of times. In last year they haven't moved even though woman next door admits it would be handy. Main reason... city centre roads just too hostile as by the time pedestrians and cars jostle for space bikes are squeezed out. I cycle due to habit and doubt I could get anyone to start now on our stair. Was just possible during lockdown...
*have old car too which is in Grindlay St so they have to walk to use it but still find it ok - will get back to Johnson Terrace soon.
Posted 2 years ago # -
“city centre roads just too hostile as by the time pedestrians and cars jostle for space bikes are squeezed out“
Well yes but
This is South Bridge at 4:15 today.
Obviously related to NB restrictions and RM & Cockburn being shut
But rather a lot of space to be reallocated!
Posted 2 years ago # -
No idea if/how this would affect Scotland -
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Truss pledged during the Tory leadership campaign to light a bonfire of obesity rules if she won. “Those taxes are over. Talking about whether or not somebody should buy a two-for-one offer? No. There is definitely enough of that,” she told the Daily Mail last month.
“What people want the government to be doing is delivering good roads, good rail services, making sure there’s broadband, making sure there’s mobile phone coverage, cutting the NHS waiting lists, helping people get a GP appointment. They don’t want the government telling them what to eat”, she added.
A leading health campaigner, who did not want to be named, said Truss’s readiness to abandon the approach to obesity was “ideological” and driven by her belief in minimal regulation of business.
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Posted 2 years ago # -
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Within healthcare itself, healthy food and honestly just healthy physical activity does not get anywhere near enough attention it should get.”
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Posted 1 year ago #
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About 90% of diabetes patients have type 2, a condition much more likely to develop if people are overweight. About two-thirds of adults in the UK are overweight or obese.“
Posted 1 year ago # -
If only there was some sort of activity that could be built into daily life that could help prevent it...
Posted 1 year ago # -
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A powerful new weight-loss medication may be approved for those aged 12 to 17. But healthcare professionals fear it ignores the underlying socioeconomic causes
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/30/can-drugs-fix-uk-adolescent-obesity-crisis
Posted 1 year ago # -
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Ban smoking and tax fruit juice, says George Osborne
Ex-chancellor urges UK PM extend sugar tax and raise legal age for tobacco to curb obesity and cancer
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Posted 1 year ago # -
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Hancock says the pandemic was unprecedented. And he says that, as secretary of state, he had to address multiple problems. He says he was told that tackling problems like obesity were the main health challenges.
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Obesity in an ageing population is 'biggest issue for NHS'
The "penny is starting to drop", says Professor Naveed Sattar when asked whether attitudes to obesity are finally beginning to change.
The Glasgow University academic has spent nearly 20 years as a professor of metabolic medicine working in research on drugs trials for diabetes and cardiovascular (CVD) disease.
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Posted 1 year ago # -
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The distinctions Van Tulleken makes go to the heart of his research into the damage that ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are causing to our physical and mental health. The contention of his bestselling book Ultra-Processed People is that food engineered by corporations with additives and emulsifiers and modified starches essentially “hacks our brains”, disrupting the normal regulation of appetite. It tricks us into eating more by being softer, slicker, saltier, sweeter than whole foods and it is that trillion-dollar fact, his evidence suggests, which is driving the obesity epidemic. In the course of his deep research, he acts as a guinea pig for these theories (with the occasional help of his twin brother, Xand, also a doctor and, because they share a genetic makeup, his built-in control group). His months of eating badly served to show that what he was consuming was not food, it was, as one academic colleague kept insisting to him, “an industrially processed edible substance”. Or “food that lies to us”.
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Posted 6 months ago # -
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Majority in UK want new tax on makers of ultra-processed and junk food
Exclusive: Poll findings prompt calls for ministers to impose sugar tax-style levy on companies to combat obesity
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Posted 3 months ago # -
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Dr Dolly van Tulleken, a Medical Research Council-funded Cambridge University expert in obesity, who contributed to the report, said: “This £268bn cost shows us that we have a food system that privatises the profits and socialises the harms from bad food. It puts a price on the failure of the government stretching back over 30 years to regulate big food.”
Sue Pritchard, the FFCC’s chief executive, urged ministers to bring in robust regulation of the food industry. Food firms have sacrificed the health of consumers as they have taken “the fast track to big profits” by using flavours, packaging and clever marketing ploys to encourage people to buy food that harms their health, she said.
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Posted 5 days ago #
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