Weight gain between Thanksgiving & New Year
It is an often quoted ‘fact’ that Americans gain up to half a stone on average between Thanksgiving and New Year. Thanksgiving in America falls on the last Thursday in November, so it was on November...
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Top tips for Christmas (to avoid looking like Santa)!
The Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dame Sally Davies, made the headlines last week. In her annual report she said “I advocate recognising obesity at the level of a “national risk.”” This was interpreted...
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Weight gain over Christmas
This will be the last note before Christmas, so it seems appropriate to look at a festive study that has just been published in the BMJ. It was called “Effectiveness of a brief behavioural...
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Christmas & weight gain
Executive summary * The festive period is notorious for weight gain and this phenomenon has been the subject of academic studies. * Study 1 in this note (272 adults, UK) encouraged restraint in the...
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Top tips for festive eating
Introduction Every Monday we send out a newsletter that looks at a particular aspect of diet and health in the news. This will be the last note before Christmas, so I thought it might be timely and...
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It is an often quoted ‘fact’ that Americans gain up to half a stone on average between Thanksgiving and New Year. Thanksgiving in America falls on the last Thursday in November, so it was on November...
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Top tips for Christmas (to avoid looking like Santa)!
The Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dame Sally Davies, made the headlines last week. In her annual report she said “I advocate recognising obesity at the level of a “national risk.”” This was interpreted...
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Weight gain over Christmas
This will be the last note before Christmas, so it seems appropriate to look at a festive study that has just been published in the BMJ. It was called “Effectiveness of a brief behavioural...
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