11/11/09 - National Heart Forum Bulletin

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Summary

News

  • USA: Teach children to ignore junk-food advertising, say experts (The Ecoologist 09/11/09)
  • USA: Obesity predicts atherothrombotic risk in patients with diabetes, CAD (Medical News Today 05/11/09)
  • UK: Death of TB pioneer who saved thousands of lives (04/11/09)
  • Italy: MCP-1 is associated with type 2 diabetes and CVD mortality (Medical News Today 04/11/09)

 

Nutrition

  • USA: What kids drink at 5 could affect weight at 15 (Reuters 06/11/09)
  • Canada: Breastfeeding may not alter older kids health (Reuters 05/11/09)
  • USA: Updated position paper promoting and supporting breastfeeding released by American Dietetic Association (Medical News Today 04/11/09)

 

Physical Activity

  • USA: Physical education key to improving health in low-income adolescents (Medical News Today 06/11/09)

 

Alcohol

  • UK: Call for ban on drinks industry sponsoring sporting events (The Guardian 10/11/09)
  • UK: Alcohol gravest threat to society, claims sacked scientist (Daily Telegraph 05/11/09)

 

Obesity

  • USA: Obesity is the cause of many types of cancers, US researchers say (The Independent 09/11/09)
  • UK: Institute to fight obesity opens (BBC News 06/11/09)
  • USA: Alternate-day fasting shows promise for obese dieters (Medical News Today 05/11/09)
  • USA: In increased obesity rates among adolescents, decrease in physical activity may not be a factor (Medical News Today 04/11/09)
  • Greece: Eating quickly is associated with overeating (Medical News Today (04/11/09)

 

Consultations

  • UK: Prevention of cardiovascular disease: consultation on the draft guidance (NICE – consultation closing on 16/11/09)
  • UK: Prevention of cardiovascular disease: additional evidence consultation (NICE – consultation closing on 16/11/09)
  • UK: Consultation on product placement on television (Department for Culture Media and Sport – consultation closing on 08/01/10)
  • UK: Saturation point addressing the health impacts of hot food takeaways NHF consultation response 05/11/09)
  • UK: Draft energy requirements report ‘scientific consultation’ November 2009 (Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition – consultation closing on 11/02/10)

 

Resources

  • UK: NHS Evidence Diabetes: 2009 Annual Evidence Update on Diabetes (09/11/09)
  • UK: Ourlife report on cheap supermarket alcohol (Ourlife 22/10/09)

 

Events

  • UK: 4th UK Stroke Forum conference (1 – 3 December, Glasgow)
  • UK: Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity seminar series (Oxford, 11 18 and 26 November)

 

Tobacco

  • Recent headlines from ASH and ASH Scotland daily news

 

 

A summary of the weeks news stories covering issues related to Coronary Heart Disease. This summary was produced by the National Heart Forum. The table of content reproduced and the full bulletin linked to with their permission.

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