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Reilly: More shops need to stop selling sweets and chocolates at checkouts
The health minister has welcomed an announcement by Tesco to end the practice.
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The health minister has welcomed an announcement by Tesco to end the practice.
Not surprisingly the decline in home cooking closely mirrors the rise in obesity – and it has also undermined our social skills.
Our current model of healthcare was developed to deal with a very different world: one in which people did not survive long into old age and acute illness was the main cause of death.
Experts say that obesity has reached a ‘tipping point’ in Ireland. Here are tips they shared with us on how to keep your kids healthy and active.
Here’s what it’s like to eat at the Heart Attack Grill. Yes, it’s in Las Vegas.
There is concern about the level of overweight among Irish children, as 20 per cent of them are obese.
The World Health Organisation is expected to reduce the recommended amount of sugar consumed daily by 50 per cent.
There’s a strong correlation between weight and income. John Verling asks whether we’re in danger of criminalising being fat while missing the nub of the problem …
The Junior Health Minister says the government will review the findings of the study.
We need to find a healthy balance regarding body image – and that means not celebrating extreme sizes, writes Lorraine Courtney.
The Department of Education has stopped short of taking a concrete step that would reduce the amount of junk food eaten by children in schools: banning junk food vending machines from schools.
Minister Ruairí Quinn said he could not “dictate” what is sold in the vending machines in schools.
People with ‘modern luxuries’ could be putting themselves at risk for diabetes.
The council say the messages will give them a “effective nudge” to lose weight.
The ‘invisible hand of the market’ promotes obesity worldwide, according to the Irish and American authors of a new global study.
A new study from Trinity College Dublin also shows high levels of cardiovascular disease, arthritis and obesity.
Scottish football fans were able to lose weight and stay fit thanks to the Football Fans in Training programme.
We have the opportunity to develop a course on basic human nutrition, physical education and life skills to young people, other than just playing some games – so let’s take it, writes Steve Doody.
The project was part of the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in the RDS this week.
Plus: How many people in the world are obese?
A new report from the Overseas Development Institute details how one in three adults worldwide are now obese.
Safefood has launched a campaign to encourage parents to give their children water instead of juices and cordials.
Their parents like them, they’re adjusting well to school, but 20 per cent are overweight.
A new study says that by 2030, 90 per cent of Irish adults will be overweight. But is enough being done to tackle this?
Girls in the USA were found to be developing symptoms of puberty at an average age of 9.7 years.
The Irish Heart Foundation is continuing its call for the government to place a sugar tax on sugar-sweetened drinks.
Plus: How much money has the HSE spent so far this year?
The news comes as Safefood launched a campaign specifically aimed at tackling childhood obesity.
Nickolay Lamm created constrasting illustrations of men from four countries, using national average measurements.
Just like humans, animals can feel stressed out too sometimes, which could be making them emotional eaters, a study finds.
Frances Fitzgerald said she was concerned about figures in a report published today which found “examples of three-year-olds eating hamburgers and crisps”.
A joint study by the University of Edinburgh and Columbia University in New York has found that children of overweight mothers are more likely to suffer from heart disease.
Men who fail to eat in the morning have a 27 percent higher risk of heart attack than those who eat breakfast, a new study shows.
Gender work division in the home may have something to do with it…
Curve growth patterns emerge almost from birth, say scientists.
Lower household income, smoking and lower levels of breastfeeding are all contributory factors.
The World Health Organisation has warned that unhealthy food needs to be taxed to divert people from buying it.
The rise in the number of Irish women having Caesarean sections is not a result of women being “too posh to push” – there’s a hidden story that also impacts women’s choices around childbirth: pelvic floor dysfunction.