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Our revamped BMI calculator
Being overweight increases cancer risk World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF UK) has had an online body mass index (BMI) calculator for some time. But today we have launched a revamped version of the BMI...
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Quarter of adults in UK are obese
Obesity: a cancer risk factor A new report that includes obesity statistics for the European Union makes depressing reading. It has found that 25% of adults in the UK are obese, which is the highest...
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Safeguarding children from fast food marketing
Physical activity important to fight obesity These days most parents are acutely aware that their children are seen as a valuable market by a wide range of manufacturers. But many may be unaware of the...
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Accurate weight perception: an important determinant of healthy weight
Are we failing to see the truth? Following today’s report, which proposes Governments get tough on obesity, we look at recent research, which suggests that a skewed perception of body weight may also...
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Obesity and cancer risk: Guardian health editor and author Sarah Boseley on...
Sarah Boseley is the Guardian’s award-winning health editor and author of ‘The Shape We’re In: How junk food and diets are shortening our lives’. Here she writes about the dangers of obesity, and...
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