A new poll has been conducted to coincide with the launch of this week’s annual ‘JanUary’ campaign (formerly National Obesity Awareness Week). It found a third of Britons believe more physical education at school and clearer food labelling would be most effective for tackling the obesity crisis.
Obesity continues to be a problem, one that extends throughout life as children move into adolescence and adulthood and choose progressively less physical activity and less healthy diets. This public health issue needs to be addressed early in childhood, when children are adopting the behaviours that they will carry through life. Eat Well & Keep Moving will help children learn to adopt physically active and nutritionally healthy lifestyles that significantly reduce the risk of obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and other diseases.
The On Your Feet Britain Challenge dares you to take James Brown at his word and ‘Get up offa that thing’
MPs say it is “inexplicable” that the NHS in England spends more on bariatric surgery than well-established measures to prevent obesity.
More than 1.8m people belong to sports clubs and almost three million sports competitions took place in England in 2014.
Low-intensity exercise like walking for even a minute at a time can cut blood pressure
Sunlight continues to damage people’s skin and increase the risk of cancer for hours after they leave the beach
According to a new survey, people from the UK and Ireland are more likely to consider themselves overweight than those from anywhere else in Europe
