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News
Key National Obesity Observatory news items are listed here.
Health Secretary sets out a new national ambition for physical activity.
On Monday the 23rd of January the Health Secretary set out a new national ambition for physical activity – to have a year on year increase in the number of adults doing 150 minutes of exercise per week (in bouts of 10 minutes or more) and a year on year ...
Healthy lives, healthy people: Improving outcomes and supporting transparency report published
The new public health outcomes framework, sets out the desired outcomes for public health and how these will be measured.
The framework concentrates on two high-level outcomes to be achieved across the public health system. These are:
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School Food Trust publishes voluntary food and drink guidelines for early years settings in England
This guide has been developed by the school food trust to help early years providers and practitioners meet the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) welfare requirement for the provision of healthy, balanced and nutritious food and drink. ...
Latest results from the Active People Survey 5
The survey provides by far the largest sample size ever established for a sport and recreation survey and allows levels of detailed analysis previously unavailable. It identifies how participation varies from place to place and between different groups in the population.
Health Survey for England 2010 published
The Health Survey for England (HSE) is part of a programme of surveys commissioned by The NHS Information Centre for health and social care (NHS IC), and carried out since 1994 by the Joint Health Surveys Unit of the National Centre for Social Research ...
New DEFRA Family Food 2010 report
Family Food is the source of detailed statistical information on purchased quantities, expenditure and nutrient intakes derived from both household and eating out food and drink. Data is collected for a sample of households in the United Kingdom using ...
BERTIE Babies and Early Years Risk – Trying to Implement the Evidence
Our growing understanding of early life risk factors for later obesity suggests that infants at particular risk might be identified to enable targeting of advice and support for the child’s parents and carers. An alternative is to take a universal approach ...
New IC report: National Child Measurement Programme: England, 2010/11 school year
This report published by the NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care summarises the key findings from the Government's National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) for England, 2010/11 school year. The report provides high-level analysis of the ...
ONS Family Spending 2011 Edition published
The key points from this release are:
* UK Households spent an average of £474 per week in 2010.
* The largest expenditure categories were transport, housing (excluding mortgages) fuel and power, and recreation and culture.
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New Cochrane review published: Interventions for preventing obesity in children
Childhood obesity can cause social, psychological and health problems, and is linked to obesity later in life and poor health outcomes as an adult. Obesity development is related to physical activity and nutrition. To prevent obesity, 55 studies conducted ...