Since Race for Life start in 1994, an incredible six million participants have raised over £493 million, making it the UK’s biggest fight against cancer and the largest women-only fundraising event. Many people are inspired to take part in Race for Life, whether it is to celebrate the survival of cancer or in memory of [...]
They are all triggers of allergic reactions in children. Its thought that around 40% of children now suffer from allergies. The reaction to these allergies can range from fairly innocuous, to life threatening in the case of anaphylactic shock. Anaphylactic shock is an abnormal bodily response to a usually harmless substance. It can occur within [...]
We all buy them, sucked into the hype of advertising that food companies put out there to make us think that buying a diet option food will get you slim… But how wrong are you!… Cereal Bars: We are lead to believe that cereal bars are the perfect healthy snack and the light option breakfast [...]
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Estimates of the direct costs to the NHS for treating overweight and obesity, and related morbidity in England, have ranged from £479.3 million in 1998 [1] to £4.2 billion in 2007 [2]. Estimates of the indirect costs (those costs arising from the impact of obesity on the wider economy such as loss of productivity) over [...]
Data on purchases and expenditure have been collected by various surveys since 1940 to provide an assessment of the effectiveness of the national food policy at the time. In 2001, the National Food Survey (NFS) was merged with the Family Expenditure Survey (FES) to form the Expenditure and Food Survey (EFS). In 2008, the EFS, [...]
The Low Income Diet and Nutrition Survey (LIDNS) was commissioned by the Food Standards Agency. It provides strong, nationally representative, evidence on the eating habits, nourishment and nutrition-related health of people on low income. A sample of 3728 adults and children (aged 4 and above) from 2477 households across the UK were surveyed between November [...]
It may not be the only way to tackle Obesity, but it will raise much needed funds to pay for this epidemic hitting our NHS system. More and more people are getting expensive operations such as gastric bypass off the NHS and other services being used by Obese people from the NHS that it needs [...]
We are the fattest country in Europe and getting Fatter! Recent news on the subject of Obesity in the UK naming Tamworth in Staffordshire as the fattest town in the UK has spurred papers and TV to talk more about the subject of how bad our nation is getting but no one seems to be doing [...]
When people who are described as atopic, eat certain foods, they produce excessive amounts of an antibody called immunogloblin E when eating and inhaling allergens. These foods are often such as milk, fish, eggs & nuts. The reaction can be as light as just a runny nose to extreme cases of swelling of the face, [...]
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