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- 1. A New Year: a New Obesity Plan
- (Recent News)
- ... National Obesity Forum and British Dietetic Association, are not impressed at Round 3 of the CHANGE4LIFE initiative. THE INDEPENDENT invited Professor Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy at City University, ...
- Created on 06 January 2012
- 2. Tell your partner he/she's fat?
- (Recent News)
- Men are three times more likely than women to struggle to tell their partner that they need to lose weight research suggests. The ICCR [International Chairion Cardiometabolic Risk] and the National ...
- Created on 05 January 2012
- 3. MPs deride HMG obesity strategy
- (Recent News)
- ... problems of obesity and chronic drinking. The Committee's report, examining Government reforms proposed for Public Health, echoes concerns expressed by the British Medical Association, campaigneers ...
- Created on 02 November 2011
- 4. Fat Tax - UK may follow Denmark
- (Recent News)
- ... 3rd below]. The interview was first run in the 5 NEWS AT 5 bulletin complete with an endorsement from the National Obesity Forum. In a longer quote to the Press Association the Forum ...
- Created on 04 October 2011
- 5. Danish tax saturated fat
- (Recent News)
- ... Danish Health Minister, Jacob Neilsen, is quoted by Associated Press as being convinced that " the tax is a step in the right direction ". ...
- Created on 03 October 2011
- 6. Bariatric surgery as a medical solution to the financial impact on the NHS of co‐morbidities associated with severe and complex obesity:
- (Training and Events)
- An emerging opportunity for the medical community Date: Monday 28th November, 2011 Venue: The Royal College of Surgeons, London Time: 10am – 4.30pm Guest speaker – Associate Professor John Dixon, Monash ...
- Created on 12 September 2011
- 7. The " fat and jolly " hypothesis for adolescent girls
- (Recent News)
- French clinicians, aiming to describe the association between BMI [Body Mass Index] and depression in teenage children, report that overweight adolescent girls are more likely to be depressed ...
- Created on 17 August 2011
- 8. Smoking " pack years " concept for obesity?
- (Recent News)
- ... because examining the association between obesity and the risk of mortality, by considering only its severity and ignoring its duration, may have underestimated the adverse effects of the current ...
- Created on 17 August 2011
- 9. Obese man loses surgery Appeal
- (Recent News)
- Tom Condliffe, a morbidly obese man [BMI 43], whose primary care trust [PCT] refused to fund his bariatric surgery, has lost his Appeal to take his case to the Supreme Court though he may ask the court ...
- Created on 27 July 2011
- 10. Should parents lose custody of super obese kids?
- (Recent News)
- To-day’s publication of the journal of the American Medical Association states that putting children temporarily in foster care is in some cases more ethical than obesity surgery. Dr David Ludwig, ...
- Created on 13 July 2011
- 11. ‘Man-Flu’ – is the joke over? Take a Man MOT
- (Daily updates)
- ... Forum, Sexual Advice Association, Relate, HEART UK and Diabetes UK. References OnePoll survey data, September 2010: PR consumer survey. Participants: 3,000 ...
- Created on 02 December 2010
- 12. CIPPET Certificate in Obesity Management
- (Courses and Conferences)
- A six-day practical course for primary health care professionals in association with the Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research (ICMR) and the Centre for Inter-Professional Postgraduate Education ...
- Created on 27 July 2010
- 13. Stroke
- (Concerned about your health)
- The Stroke Association is working for a world where there are fewer strokes and all those touched by stroke get the help they need. ...
- Created on 15 October 2009
- 14. University of Reading - Certificate in Obesity Management
- (Other training Courses)
- A six day practical course for primary health care professionals in association with the Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research and the Centre for Inter-Professional Postgraduate Education ...
- Created on 20 July 2009
- 15. Debbie Cook
- (The NOF trustees)
- ... at the medical practice associated with the hospital and, with one of the partners, developed a patient focused diabetes service serving the local population. Concentrating on diabetes and obesity, Debbie ...
- Created on 10 February 2009
- 16. Graham Phillips
- (The NOF trustees)
- ... Pharmacy Association in 1994 until retiring in 2002 upon his election to the Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society where he chaired the Communications Group and the Education Committee. He has ...
- Created on 28 January 2009
- 17. Dr Matthew Capehorn
- (The NOF trustees)
- ... I have been Honorary Secretary of the Rotherham Division of British Medical Association since 2003. However, my main interest over the last few years has been as a GP specialising in obesity management. ...
- Created on 11 November 2008
- 18. An approach to Primary Prevention of Obesity in children and adolescents
- (Obesity Care Pathway)
- ... in developed countries.3 In children and adolescents the associated morbidities include hypertension, hyperinsulinaemia, dyslipidaemia, type 2 diabetes, psychosocial dysfunction and exacerbation of existing ...
- Created on 09 June 2008
- 19. Higher body mass index means higher risk of several cancers
- (Research Reports)
- ... Trust and colleagues did a meta-analysis of 221 datasets incorporating 282,137 cases to determine the risk of cancer associated with a 5 kg/m2 increase in BMI. They found, in men, a 5 kg/m2 increase ...
- Created on 18 February 2008
- 20. The Truth About Obesity; a response from the National Obesity Forum
- (NOF in the media)
- ... by an average of 9 years. (1) It is associated with at least 45 co-morbidities among which are some of the biggest killers in modern society, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease ...
- Created on 30 November 2007