Tag: Obesity

A plan to slash 100 calories from every supermarket basket has sparked outcry, with critics calling it nanny statism gone mad and shops warning it means fewer snacks and higher prices.

Welcome to Sadiq Khan's London, says Steven Tucker: where images of women in swimwear, wedding cake and hotdogs are banned but radical Islamic preachers burning dollars are welcome.

Deaths from heart failure in 2023 have been 26% higher than pre-pandemic levels, the latest data show. How much of this is because lockdown made the nation less healthy and active?

The EU is investigating reports of suicidal thoughts associated with weight loss drugs Ozempic and Saxenda. This is not a surprise as all previous weight loss drugs have been withdrawn due to harms.

The WHO now thinks that artificial sweeteners don't help with weight loss and may be dangerous, contradicting its previous advice. So how do we know it's got it right this time?

Those demonising the unvaccinated need to look in the mirror – many of them are overweight, and that's much more likely to put you in hospital for Covid or something else than declining the vaccine.

Binge-eating and lack of exercise during lockdown has led to a massive increase in people suffering from Gout. 234,000 patients were admitted to hospital with gout in 2021/22, according to NHS Digital.

People with severe obesity generate a significantly weaker immune response to COVID-19 vaccination compared to those with normal weight, but the previously infected do not have this problem, a study has found.

A recent study finds that obese people who lost weight after gastric bypass got less severe Covid, compared to matched controls who didn't have the surgery. Why isn't reducing obesity part of the fight against Covid?

Last year saw the largest annual rise in childhood obesity since records began. This brings to mind one of Martin Kulldorff's principles: “Public health is about all health outcomes, not just a single disease.”