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Care-free days?

The list of health and wellbeing woes that can affect children can seem overwhelming at times

08 Apr 2016 , 4 Min Article

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Nutrition & weight management

Public still underestimates obesity-cancer link

Forty-one per cent of adults in Britain don’t know that being overweight increases cancer risk

22 Feb 2016 , 1 Min Article

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Nutrition & weight management

Male obesity cuts RA risk?

Being overweight or obese is associated with a reduced risk that men, but not women, will develop RA

21 Oct 2015 , 1 Min Article

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The big issue

New NICE guidelines are urging parents to toughen up in a bid to curb obesity

22 Jun 2015 , 4 Min Article

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Health supplements

Vitamin D supplementation will aid weight loss?

Vitamin D supplements have been found to aid weight loss in obese and overweight people

17 Jun 2015 , 1 Min Article

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Nutrition & weight management

Diet & Nutrition

Pharmacies can demonstrate the contribution they can make to weight loss and food digestive conditions, reports Charles Gladwin

15 Jun 2015 , 3 Min Article

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Nutrition & weight management

Spend in right places to tackle obesity epidemic

Spending more on bariatric surgery than lifestyle interventions is "inexplicable and unacceptable”, say MPs

20 Apr 2015 , 1 Min Article

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Nutrition & weight management

Less paunch, more punch

Half the population will be obese by 2050. Can pharmacy do more to help?

20 Mar 2015 , 2 Min Article

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Nutrition & weight management

Maximise weight loss: can pharmacies compete?

Can pharmacies do more to grow their impact in weight loss by focusing more on programme-based weight loss solutions?

16 Mar 2015 , 5 Min Article

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A numbers game

This article looks at new proposals that could change how nutritional information is displayed on alcoholic drinks.

03 Mar 2015 , 4 Min Article

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Nutrition & weight management

Just a spoonful of sugar...

Mary Poppins advocated sugar as an aid to taking medicine but health campaigners insist that we all need to cut back

20 Sep 2014 , 2 Min Article

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