Change4Life obesity campaign critized by the Lancet

The Lancet medical journal says that the decision to allow producers of fatty and sugary foods to take part in the campaign was wrong. “Ill-judged partnerships that fuek obesity should have been avoided,” it added. What do they know?

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Ændret skattelovgivning skal få danskerne op på cyklen

En daglig cykeltur til arbejde eller skole er en af de måder, man nemt kan få motion. Nu foreslår Diabetesforeningen, Dansk Cyklist Forbund, Forbrugerrådet, Danske Cykelhandlere, Hjerteforeningen og Kræftens Bekæmpelse regeringen tilpasser skattelovgivningen, så danskerne motiveres til cykelpendling.

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How can we develop foods with best possible health impact?

A new Transatlantic Foods for Health Consortium will seek to answer this question. The first steps towards creating the consortium were taken as leading food scientists from Denmark and California met at the UC Davis Centennial Symposia ‘œFoods for Health in the 21st Century: A Roadmap for the Future.’

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Vitamin-cola fjernes fra hylderne

I dag har både Dansk Supermarked og Coop besluttet at trække Coca Cola Light Plus væk fra hylderne. “Børn kan blive vildledt til at tro, at det er et sundere produkt, end det er” siger Mogens Werge fra COOP.

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2008 Outdoor Recreation Participation Report

The 2008 Outdoor Recreation Participation Report is based on an on-line survey capturing responses from over 60,000 Americans ages six and older and covers 114 different outdoor activities, making it the largest survey of its type examining participation in sports and outdoor activities.

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Built environment and health behaviors

This article presents a summarization of the literature on the built environment and its association with physical activity, diet, and obesity among African Americans. With only 17 articles eligible for inclusion into the review, more research is needed to draw conclusions on features of the built environment that are associated with physical activity, diet, and obesity.

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Local environment and obesity in Portugal

7669 individuals aged 18+ from 143 neighborhoods in Portugal reported body height and weight. Results include that different environmental factors are significantly associated with excess weight and obesity, either directly or indirectly (e.g. health-related behaviors such as eating patterns and physical activity, which are key mediators), after adjustment for individual characteristics.

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School wellness program in Loiusiana increased children’s self-efficacy to consume F&V

A randomized controlled intervention trial was conducted in 14 low-income, urban, public elementary schools.

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Household and food shopping environments: do they play a role in socioeconomic inequalities in F&V consumption?

Based on postal questionnaire from 4333 adults (23–85 years) living in 168 neighborhoods in the south-eastern Netherlands Dutch researchers found that improving access to FV in the household and food shopping environments will only make a small contribution to improving population consumption levels, and may only have a limited effect in reducing socioeconomic inequalities in their consumption.

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New BMI cut off points suggested for self-reported data

Since subjects included in population studies tend to underreport their weight and overestimate their height, obesity prevalence based on these data is often inaccurate. A reduced obesity threshold for self-reported height and weight was proposed and evaluated for its accuracy. The French and Swiss researchers suggest based on data from 13.162 subjects: 29.2 kg/m2

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