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7 Sep 2014:New research claims that environmental factors can affect the genes of our offspring. Diabetes, obesity – even certain phobias – may be influenced by our forebears. By Angela Saini
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2 Sep 2014: Tourism boom spreading obesity across the islands but South Pacific state being encouraged to see value of a traditional diet, writes Declan McCormack
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24 Aug 2014:
Zoe Williams: The maverick scientist has long argued that sugar is as harmful as cocaine or tobacco – and that the food industry has been adding too much of it to our meals for too long. So why aren't people taking him more seriously?
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13 Aug 2014:
Type 2 diabetes, linked in 90% of cases to overweight and obesity, is soaring. New research shows 40% of Americans and 50% of Hispanics and non-Hispanic black women will get the disease at some point in their life and the numbers are unlikely to be much different elsewhere in the developed world
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12 Aug 2014:
Impact on health service of type 2, weight-related, diabetes prompts call to divert sugary foods' VAT to weight plans
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5 Aug 2014:
Fats with odd number of carbon atoms, found in dairy products such as yoghurt, led to reduced risk of developing disease
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1 Aug 2014: Christina Patterson: Big bodies may hold big hearts, but obese health workers are in no shape to tackle the problems of the health service
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31 Jul 2014:
Public Health England states categorically for first time that excess weight is biggest risk factor for type 2 diabetes
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25 Jul 2014:
Research finds shift work carries 9% higher risk of type 2 diabetes, especially in men and those with rotating shift patterns
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15 Jul 2014:
Diagnosis increases likelihood of being prescribed medicine that merely delays onset of illness, scientists argue
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Video
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11 Jul 2014:
Diabetes UK welcomes new NHS guidelines which look to lower the threshold for those seeking Bariatric, or stomach-reducing, surgery
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Poll,
11 Jul 2014:
Stomach-reducing surgery to restrict eating could be offered to an additional 800,000 people under new NHS guidelines. Good idea? Vote in our poll
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11 Jul 2014:
Threshold for bariatric operations could be lowered to help with soaring number of cases of type 2 diabetes
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7 Jul 2014:
Sarah Boseley's examination of the causes and consequences of obesity in the UK is salutary, but does not go far enough, writes Joanna Blythman
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30 Jun 2014:
Letters: Sugar is tasty, mildly addictive and a slow-acting metabolic poison
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