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Why is Ireland so fat? Here's what an expert thinks
A WHO report published today said most Irish adults are likely to be overweight in 15 years’ time.
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A WHO report published today said most Irish adults are likely to be overweight in 15 years’ time.
On current trends, some 89 percent of Irish men will be overweight by 2030, and nearly half obese.
She has made some people very upset with her comments.
More than 42 million children under the age of five are either overweight or obese.
Catherine Noone is worried about rising obesity levels among young people.
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Doctors have said the plan may actually cost money, not save it.
The Children’s Minister said the obesity of an applicant would have to be considered.
Experts have said obesity can not be cured with dieting and exercise alone.
The Health Minister says some salads contain more calories than a burger meal.
We don’t need a nation of size 8s and Disney-proportioned cartoon characters, but we do need to admit that being overweight is not healthy.
An article in the British Medical Journal has kicked off a massive discussion on the way doctors treat fat people.
The pill is like a “relay race”, researchers say.
This comes in a new study from Slimming World about the abuse faced.
Lots of Irish people are kidding themselves when it comes to their weight and diet.
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Obesity could also lead to a person losing as much as 19 years of healthy living.
Almost three times more likely than men, in fact.
Treat foods are designed to be attractive to all our senses – and that’s a powerful lure, even for the strong-willed among us.
Rather than scaremongering children into thinking that eating sweet food will make them (horror of horrors) fat, let’s teach them about being healthy.
Researchers say the plateau in childhood obesity is still unacceptably high.
The results were somewhat unsurprising.
Safefood estimates that 20% of a child’s calorific intake has little or no nutritional value.
Jan O’Sullivan’s also rejected calls for a tax on fizzy drinks in the upcoming Budget. Doctors have called for urgent action to address childhood obesity
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The biggest study of its kind found that over there are around 12,000 obesity-related cancers a year.
The study, led by Trinity College, found that Irish men are on par with Americans when it comes to obesity.
Kenny faced questions from the opposition benches over a decision to suspend gastric band operations at a hospital.
The city had gone to court seeking a reversal of an earlier decision to block the ban, which was the controversial brainchild of former mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Fine Gael Senator Catherine Noone has said that if schools devote 30 minutes a day to exercise, it could “make a big difference for generations to come” in terms of obesity.
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Between 1990 and 2000 the prevalence of obesity in Ireland increased by 67%.
Banning ice cream and caramel Frappuccinos will not solve our obesity problem – we need to get to the root of the what’s causing it.
Researchers at NUI Maynooth say that there may be a problem with how we measure weight.
The research found that changing diet alone can lose more weight than doing more exercise.
Senator Catherine Noone says that the chimes are an “aggressive form of selling”.
A a new global study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation found that obesity kills about 3.4 million people a year.
Manuel Uribe had slimmed down to about 867 pounds from over 1,200.