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| 24/07/2008 |
| Financial Times |
| By: Jenny Wiggins |
| Joint initiative aims to combat obesity |
| A consortium of food, soft drink, fitness and broadcasting companies are to join forces with the government to launch the biggest anti-obesity marketing campaign ever seen in Britain, in a move intended to project a more proactive industry approach to tackling health problems. |
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| 24/07/2008 |
| The Guardian |
| By: Ian Sample |
| Breastfed babies more receptive to tastes, say food research scientists |
| The food mothers eat while breast feeding changes the flavour of their milk and could help to make children more likely to try new tastes when they grow up, say scientists. Scientists at the University of Copenhagen asked 18 breast-feeding mothers to take capsules containing the flavours, with tests showing that tastes transferred temporarily to the breast milk, but disappeared within eight hours. |
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| 24/07/2008 |
| The Guardian |
| By: Ian Sample |
| Soya-based foods may harm male fertility, say scientists |
| Men who eat soya-based foods may be harming their fertility, doctors said yesterday, after a study found a link between soya-rich diets and lower sperm counts. The study showed that men who consumed more than two portions of soya-based foods a week had, on average, 41 million fewer sperm per millilitre of semen than men who had never eaten soya products. |
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| 24/07/2008 |
| Daily Telegraph |
| By: Kate Devlin |
| Over-65s take more exercise |
| Britain is more active than a decade ago, with people aged over 65 increasing their exercise levels the most. Women now take an average of 20 per cent more exercise than they did in 1997 and men 10 per cent more, according to a study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. However, while men over 65 now take 20 per cent more exercise than they did a decade ago and women 25 per cent more, the amount of exercise taken by younger people has plateaued. |
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| 24/07/2008 |
| Daily Telegraph |
| By: Daily Telegraph |
| Orange juice diabetes risk |
| New research suggests that a daily glass of orange juice could increase the risk of diabetes. Scientists at Tulane University in New Orleans and Harvard School of Public Health found that women who drank a glass of fruit juice every morning were 18 per cent more likely to get type two diabetes; eating fruit, on the other hand, reduced the diabetes risk. One theory is that sugar in fruit juice is absorbed very quickly through the stomach, causing a surge in blood sugar levels. |
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| 24/07/2008 |
| Daily Telegraph |
| By: Rebecca Smith |
| NHS and Health Sector News |
| Thousands of junior GPs are being forced to take menial second jobs to make ends meet because "greedy" senior partners are not offering them full time posts, reports The Telegraph. Separately, a gynaecologist accused of possessing cocaine has had the charge against her dropped. Joanna Marsden-Williams, 35, of Redland, Bristol, was charged with possessing the drug after attending a friend's wedding in Tavistock, Devon. Finally today, NHS Choices will need to justify its £80 million price tag, according to a column in The Guardian. |
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