Potential harm of injuries from extreme exercise

Fighting the fat could end in tears

Extract from the Sunday Telegraph:

"Growing numbers of middle-aged people are signing up for endurance sports such as triathlons, epic bike races and marathon desert treks - but the result is a rise in potentially crippling injuries, medical experts warn.

The types attracted to such extreme challenges are often, of course, fitness fanatics. But others, who may be high-fliers in their working lives are finding that, instead of a sculpted six-pack or newly toned thighs, they are ending up with debilitating conditions like swimmer's shoulder, knee and shin injuries caused by running, or lower back pain from cycling.

Physiotherapists expect the problem to get worse, as more people try to follow in the footsteps of the triathlon-running former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell, or the model Nell McAndrew, who has competed in marathons and duathlons.

The Chartered Society for Physiotherapy (CSP) says its members are treating growing numbers of people, particularly wealthy professional men in their forties and fifties, with knee and shoulder injuries from attempting the toughest feats such as triathlon, which brings together running, cycling and swimming in one competitive event."

Although exercise can be beneficial in many ways, it does not reduce excess weight. The way to reduce excess weight is to cut down on salt/sodium intake.

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, vascular dementia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

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Are you intending to diet to lose weight as your New Year Resolution? - Please don't! - All you need to do to lose weight is eat less salt...

Dieting is harmful and does not work. -
See Diets damage health, shows biggest ever study - Daily Mail

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, vascular dementia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

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Wider implications of the flawed theory that excess calorie intake causes obesity

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The Department of Health warns that rickets is on the rise in children and advises extra Vitamin D.

Ministers warn on rickets on rise in children

Extract from the Telegraph:

"The disease is making a resurgence, a spokesman for the Department of Health has warned.

Studies suggest between seven and eight children per 100,000 have vitamin D deficiency. But just 15 minutes of summer sunlight a day is enough for the body to manufacture the required amounts.

Families who qualify for the Healthy Start scheme can obtain free supplements. Dawn Primarolo, the health minister, said: "We particularly encourage women who are pregnant or breastfeeding to take vitamin D, to protect the health and well-being of their baby.""

Do you suffer from steroid-induced rosacea? - You can reduce its severity by cutting down on salt/sodium and salty foods.

As well as causing/exacerbating rosacea, prescribed topical steroid creams can cause salt sensitivity, skin thinning and fluid retention. It's best to avoid them.

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, vascular dementia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

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Wider implications of the flawed theory that excess calorie intake causes obesity

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Over the counter version of slimming pill, Alli, is going to be made available from pharmacists.

Slimming pill to be available from chemist

From the Telegraph:

"GlaxoSmithKline has applied for a lower dose of its anti-obesity drug Xenical to be made available under the supervision of chemists.

The new version of the drug, called Alli, has a lower dose of the active ingredient orlistat and has been available without prescription in the US since June.

People taking it three times a day for 12 weeks were twice as likely to have lost at least 10 per cent of their bodyweight, but experts warn the weight may creep back on once the course is finished."

"Xenical works by stopping the body absorbing fat from the diet, but reported side effects include headaches, diarrhoea, abdominal discomfort, depression and fatigue."

There is no need at all to take this pharmaceutical junk with its unpleasant side-effects in order to lose excess weight. Nor is it necessary to diet to lose weight. - Dieting is harmful and ineffective. - Overweight people can lose weight fast and completely safely by cutting out salt and salty food.

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, vascular dementia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

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Wider implications of the flawed theory that excess calorie intake causes obesity

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Data loss crisis spreads to the NHS

The Sunday Telegraph reports that "the data crisis has taken a new twist, as nine NHS trusts admitted losing personal information of patients."

If you are troubled by intolerable and embarrassing itching and have found no effective way of dealing with it, try cutting down on salt.

Itching is one of the many health problems that can be helped by eating less salt/sodium. - See Associated health conditions

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, vascular dementia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

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Britain continues with mixed-sex wards despite widespread criticism

U-turn on mixed-sex hospital wards

Extract from the Telegraph

"Patients' charities have argued for years that mixed-sex wards are undignified, degrading and put women at risk of attack from male patients.

A number of female patients in recent years have been the victims of assault from men in mixed-sex wards.

Figures obtained by the Conservatives under Freedom of Information laws showed that nearly a third of hospitals are still treating men and women in the same wards.

This is almost double the amount stated in a report released in May by the Chief Nursing Officer.

Following inquiries by The Daily Telegraph, the Department of Health disclosed that eliminating mixed-sex wards is no longer an aim.

A DoH spokesman said: "We have to get away from this idea of single-sex wards. That is not what it is all about."

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, vascular dementia, osteopenia, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

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Man turns blue! - A cautionary tale.

Man turns blue

Extracts from the Telegraph:

"An American man's attempts to cure an irritating skin condition backfired when his face turned blue.

Fair-skinned Paul Karason developed dermatitis as a result of stress 14 years ago and decided to treat it using silver extract.

The substance is usually consumed orally but Mr Karason also decided to rub it into his peeling skin to accelerate the effects."

"The FDA notes that use of colloidial silver can cause a condition known as argyria, an irreversible discolouration of the skin."

A safe therapy to reduce the severity of dermatitis is to avoid eating salt and salty food.

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, vascular dementia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

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Wider implications of the flawed theory that excess calorie intake causes obesity

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Premium supermarket food is often unhealthier' than the budget versions. - Plus a warning about high salt content of bread from supermarket bakeries

Premium supermarket food 'often unhealthier'

Extract from the Telegraph:

"Luxury ranges of food in supermarkets are often less healthy than the budget versions, the consumer group, Which? reports today.

Researchers found that one in four shoppers buy these premium lines, such as Tesco Finest or Sainsbury's Taste the Difference, because they think the products are better for their health.

However, they are often the highest in saturated fat - one of the most unhealthy forms of fat commonly associated with strokes, heart disease and obesity. They also often contain more salt and sugar than the standard versions.

Morrisons' beef lasagne from its The Best range has twice the fat per portion of the budget version. Asda's Extra Special lasagne contains 0.9g of salt per 100g, compared with 0.6g in the budget Smart Price version.

Tesco sells Finest European chicken kievs with garlic and parsley, which contains 2.2g of sugar per 100g - almost four times as much sugar as its standard garlic butter chicken -breast kievs.

Meanwhile, at Sainsbury's, a Taste the Difference Cumberland pie, while having less saturated fat than the standard version, is more salty and has almost twice the amount of sugar.

Bread salt warning:

Which?, the consumer watchdog, warns today that bread bought from super­-market bakeries can be twice as salty as other loaves.

Which? says that pre-packaged bread usually labels its sodium content but fresh bakery bread does not. The bakery bread averages at about 0.9g of salt per 100g of bread, about 7.5g in a large 800g loaf. Asda's granary tin loaf has the least salt on average (0.5g per 100g). The four saltiest loaves (1.1g) were the Morrisons white and granary loaves, Sainsbury's white sandwich and Tesco granary."

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, vascular dementia, osteopenia, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

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Walking, gardening or doing housework for 30 minutes most days can cut the risk of dementia by more than a third, scientists have found.

Exercise 'cuts risk of dementia'

Extract from the Telegraph:

"Walking, gardening or doing housework for 30 minutes most days can cut the risk of dementia by more than a third, scientists have found.

A team of researchers in Italy measured the calories burnt by more than 700 pensioners each day and found those who were most active were least likely to develop vascular dementia, in which the blood vessels that feed the brain become damaged and lead to mental decline.

Those sticking to guidelines of walking for 30 minutes on at least four days a week were 39 per cent less likely to develop the condition.

Vascular dementia is the second most common form of mental decline after Alzheimer's disease. There are about 700,000 people with dementia in Britain and the vascular form of the condition accounts for 17 per cent of cases.

Symptoms include problems with concentration, memory difficulties, depression, seizures and confusion."

You can also significantly reduce your risk of developing vascular dementia by avoiding eating salt and salty food and avoiding pharmaceutical drugs unless these are essential, because many pharmaceuticals - including steroids like prednisone and prednisolone, HRT and other oestrogen-containing drugs, tricyclic antidepressants like amitriptyline and other psychotropic drugs - do great harm to the blood vessels.

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, vascular dementia, osteopenia, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

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Scores of premature babies may be dying unnecessarily across England because the NHS mismanaged a reform of neonatal units in 2003

Babies dying due to NHS confusion

Extract from the Guardian:

"Scores of premature babies may be dying unnecessarily across England because the NHS mismanaged a reform of neonatal units in 2003, parliament's spending watchdog reveals today.

Health ministers provided £73m over three years to link up hospital neonatal units in 23 regional networks that could provide specialist services to save premature and low birth weight babies.

But the National Audit Office finds that the Department of Health did not issue instructions for the units to be adequately staffed. As a result the service was overstretched. Its specialist nursing workforce was nearly 10% below strength. There were not enough cots to respond to every emergency and there was a lack of specialist 24-hour transport to move babies and mothers to other hospitals.

Jacqui Smith, when health minister in 2003, said she agreed with recommendations from the British Association for Perinatal Medicine for minimum staffing ratios. But the government did not order NHS trusts to implement them.

The NAO says there was "confusion" over whether staffing ratios were mandatory, making it difficult for unit managers to convince NHS trusts they needed more staff.

Half the 180 units providing neonatal services did not meet the approved ratio for high dependency care of one nurse to two babies. And only 24% met the intensive care ratio of one nurse to one baby."

Cannabis smokers are exposed to more toxic chemicals in each puff than those who smoke only tobacco

Cannabis smoke more toxic than puffing tobacco

Extract from the Guardian:

"Cannabis smokers are exposed to more toxic chemicals in each puff than those who smoke only tobacco, scientists have found. Earlier research shows cannabis smokers are more prone to lung damage than cigarette smokers.

In tests, directly inhaled cannabis smoke contained 20 times more ammonia than cigarette smoke, five times more hydrogen cyanide and five times the concentration of nitrogen oxides, which affect circulation and the immune system."

Scans put people at risk of cancer by exposing them to high doses of radiation

Scans put people at risk of cancer, experts say

Extract from the Telegraph:

"Some private healthcare clinics offer scans, ranging in price from £500 to £2,000, claiming to pick up early signs of cancer and heart disease.

Yet the patients are exposed to around 100 times the radiation dose associated with a normal chest x-ray, which can increase the risk of developing cancer."

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Report slams appalling treatment of elderly people in care homes

Report slams elderly care home treatment

Extracts from the Telegraph:

"The appalling treatment of elderly people in care homes has been laid bare in a report which found some are dragged around by their hair, strapped into wheelchairs, locked in their rooms and sedated.

The Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI), describes how frail and vulnerable people are mistreated and often threatened or intimidated. Its 65-page report, Rights, Risks and Restraints, is based on a survey of 253 older people and their carers and an analysis of complaints and official inspection reports."

"Charities for the elderly were united in regarding the stories of abuse as "horrendous". They include:

· A staff member dragging a resident by her hair and tying her to a chair.

· Two staff routinely wrapping immobile and incontinent residents tightly in sheets to prevent them moving.

· A woman being kept waiting up to three hours before being taken to the lavatory.

· A resident locked in a bathroom with a chair under the door handle and the light put out. Staff were told to serve her coffee in the lavatory."

Even more high sodium foods to avoid if you want to lose weight

• most ready meals
• baked beans in tomato sauce
• bottled ketchup
• salted butter and margarine
• salad dressing
• salad cream
• mayonnaise
• low fat mayonnaise (usually contains more salt than ordinary mayonnaise so will not help you to lose weight)
• very low fat mayonnaise (usually contains even more salt than low fat mayonnaise, so will not help you to lose weight)
• gravy mix
• salted nuts
• salted peanut butter
• pickles
• pickled onions
• chutney
• piccalilli
• onion relish
• tomato relish
• pasta sauce
• sauerkraut
• goulash
• most curries
• fast food
• anchovies
• cottage cheese
• blue cheese
• processed cheese
• most cheese is medium to high sodium
• tinned soups
• packet soups
• pot noodles
• instant mashed potato
• Oxo cubes
• stock cubes

To convert sodium content to salt content, multiply the sodium by 2.5

On labels, more than 0.5g of sodium (1.25g salt) per 100g is high, less than 0.2g sodium (0.5g salt) is low.
In general, if you are overweight, then to lose weight you need to be eating and drinking food that is as natural as possible - cooking fresh meat and fish, drinking plain water, rather than choosing highly processed food containing high salt levels.
It is best to avoid Diet Cokes and other diet drinks. Calorie reduction does not reduce obesity, and the chemicals these diet drinks contain are often of dubious safety. - For example, there is a lot of evidence that aspartame is not good for you.
If you are overweight or obese, and you follow the suggestions on my website, you will DEFINITELY lose weight, and you will lose it speedily and safely.
There is no need to overdo anything. - Some websites advise drinking large quantities of water. This is not a good idea. Water is very good for you but too much water is not good for you. The famous actor, Anthony Andrews, drank several litres of water during a performance of "My Fair Lady" in 2003 and had to be rushed to hospital.

More high sodium foods to avoid if you want to lose weight

• bacon
• ham
• hamburgers
• beefburgers
• Cornish pasties
• Spam
• pâté
• potted meat
• most shop-bought sandwiches
• ready-made sandwiches
• pitta bread
• pikelets
• bagels
• crisps and other savoury snacks (Look for reduced-salt crisps and unsalted crisps.)
• bread (Warburton's and some other manufacturers make some healthy bread with lower sodium content.)
• cornflakes and most other breakfast cereals (check on pack)
• pizzas
• digestive biscuits
• smoked salmon
• smoked mackerel
• kippers

Remember - so-called 'slimming' foods are often high in salt! - You will not lose weight by eating foods high in salt, however low in fat they are!

Most sodium we eat is from salt (sodium chloride), but sodium is also present in MSG (monosodium glutamate), in baking powder, in bicarbonate of soda and in a few other compounds which are sometimes added to food.

High sodium foods to avoid if you want to lose weight

• Salt
• Seasalt
• celery salt
• soy sauce
• tomato sauce
• brown sauce
• tartare sauce
• processed meats, such as sausages, meat pies, pork pies
• corned beef
• luncheon meat
• meat paste
• fish paste
• Marmite
• yeast extract spread
• Vegemite

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke and heart, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

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Wider implications of the flawed theory that excess calorie intake causes obesity

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NHS hospital food is so bad that 20 per cent of the staff would be unhappy to eat it and one in four patients asks relatives to bring in meals.

Patients 'revolted' by NHS food

Extract from the Observer article:

"Hospital food is so bad that 20 per cent of the staff would be unhappy to eat it and one in four patients asks relatives to bring in meals, according to a survey by the consumer organisation Which?

The new research reveals that some hospitals are offering many of the 13 million people admitted every year unhealthy food, portions that are too small and cold meals in the evening. Patients' other complaints include being served meals at inconvenient times and failure by hospitals to cater for people with special diets, such as diabetics and the overweight.

Michael Summers, a vice-chairman of the Patients' Association, said the quality of hospital food had improved until many hospitals began running up deficits. 'There had been quite a decent variety of food, people given menus the night before and the temperature of the food was taken. But cutbacks by hospitals have had a terrible effect,' said Summers. 'It's quite common now for hospital food to be sub-standard.'

Some of the 3,000 patients interviewed described the food they had been served as 'repulsive' or 'a disgrace'. One had been given a pie and chips despite struggling to drink because of tonsillitis; another was given sandwiches for dinner.

After interviewing 250 doctors, nurses and other NHS personnel, Which? also found that one in five hospital staff would turn their nose up at food served to patients. 'We are extremely concerned that hospital food is still of such poor quality that just a third of people feel they're getting the food they need to get better, and that one in four thinks it's so bad they have to make alternative arrangements,' said Clare Corbett, a health campaigner with Which?"

I found the meals provided while I was an in-patient in the Northern General Hospital Sheffield in the summer were very poor and I had to get friends to bring me in unsalted protein food and extra fruit. Most of the hospital meals were high in salt despite the Chief Dietician's claims to the contrary...)o:

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Don't get hoodwinked by Hoodia! - You do NOT need to suppress your appetite or eat less to lose excess weight! - Just eat less salt/sodium.

Dieting does not work.

Dieting is harmful.

Dieting results in weight gain.

Read the evidence. - See Scientists Say Dieting Does Not Work or any of the other reports about what actually happens to people's weight when they diet in order to lose excess weight.

You are not overweight because of overeating; you are overweight because of fluid retention.

Just eat less salt! - You will lose excess water and thus lose weight safely and surely.

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke and heart, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

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Suffer from fluid retention? water retention? dropsy? oedema? sodium retention? salt sensitivity? - You will feel so much better if you eat less salt.

Eat less salt!

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke and heart problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

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Coroner has criticised 'lamentable' care at nursing home

Coroner faults veteran's care at nursing home

Extract from the Telegraph:

"A war veteran died after being treated "like a parcel" by nursing home staff, a coroner has said.

Charles Hounslow, a former RAF pilot, was left to die in agony after carers failed to notice that he had a broken hip for two days.

Veronica Hamilton-Deeley, the Brighton coroner, used his inquest to demand better care for the elderly.

She summed up Mr Hounslow's treatment at Miles Court Nursing Home in Brighton, East Sussex, as "lamentable" and said she feared thousands of pensioners nationwide were suffering the same fate.

Mr Hounslow, 85, had suffered from vascular dementia since 2005 and needed round-the-clock care. He was admitted to Miles Court on April 7 and died on May 16.

Mrs Hamilton-Deeley said he "was treated like a parcel in the last few weeks of his life with insufficient emphasis placed on his wellbeing and care".

"There was a catalogue of incidents leading up to Mr Hounslow's death, all of which are examples of gross mismanagement at this nursing home," she said."

Death from overdosing on Nurofen Plus.

Death sparks call for restrictions on drug sales

Extract from the Telegraph:

"A coroner has called for tougher restrictions on the sale of over-the-counter drugs after the death of a woman who became addicted to Nurofen Plus.

Linda Docherty, 49, trawled supermarket pharmacies and High Street chemists so she could take up to 64 pain-killing tablets a day.

She finally confessed her addiction to her husband and the family’s GP after two years.

However, by then it was too late and she died of kidney failure four days later.

At an inquest in Bury, Greater Manchester, yesterday, the coroner Simon Nelson recorded a verdict that Mrs Docherty died "by reason of an addiction to over-the-counter medication".

He said he would be writing to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to ask whether the current regulations concerning over-the-counter drugs were sufficiently rigorous. "I feel that the system has to be looked at again.""

Pharmaceutical drugs do tend to damage the kidneys - and the liver too, come to that.

Coroner orders police to reopen Camelford water pollution case

Coroner orders police to reopen Camelford pollution case

Extract from the Guardian:

"The police were today ordered to reopen an investigation into Britain's worst water poisoning disaster following allegations of a cover-up.

The pollution happened in 1988 when 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate was delivered into the wrong tank at the water treatment works at Lowermoor on the edge of Bodmin Moor, which were run by the now defunct South West Water Authority.

Since then, local people have complained of a range of health issues, from brain damage and memory loss to joint problems.

The police investigation was ordered today by West Somerset coroner Michael Rose, who has opened inquests into the deaths of two women who lived in the Camelford area at the time of the pollution.

One was Carole Cross, 58, who died in 2004 and was the wife of environmental scientist Doug Cross, a member of a government committee which has been investigating the medical effects of the incident.

An autopsy revealed abnormally high levels of aluminium in the brain of his wife, who suffered from a neurological disease.

Irene Neal, 91, lived in Rock, north Cornwall, at the time of the pollution and died in a nursing home in Buckfastleigh, Devon, in June this year.

A brain autopsy on Neal, whose home was served by the Camelford water system, revealed an "unacceptable amount of aluminium in the brain", said her daughter, Pam Melville.

The coroner said extensive tests, including pathology examinations, were undertaken by Professor Margaret Esiri at John Radcliffe hospital, Oxford, and by Chris Exley at Keele University, Staffordshire.

"These tests have revealed there may be a connection between at least one of these deaths and the earlier incident," the coroner said.

"In view of the serious allegations made in the media of a possible attempt to initially suppress the seriousness of the incident, I am asking the chief constable of Devon and Cornwall to hand me evidence gathered at the time of the original investigation."

He also asked the chief constable to appoint a senior detective "to look into the allegations of a possible cover-up"."

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Almost 13 million UK adults are risking their health by drinking too much

Millions more classed as danger drinkers

Extract from the Telegraph:

"Almost 13 million adults are risking their health by drinking too much because of a failure to appreciate both the increasing strength of alcoholic drinks and the trend for larger measures, Government statisticians have revealed.

Wine drinkers, and women in particular, may be at risk as the strength of the average bottle has increased from nine per cent in 1978 to 12.5 per cent today. Wine glasses have also increased in size.

In recognition of the increasing strength of drinks and larger measures, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has announced its first revision in almost 30 years of the method for assessing safe levels of alcohol consumption.

Until now, one unit of alcohol was a half-pint of beer, a single measure of spirits or a small (125ml) glass of wine.

A large glass of wine will now be counted as three units, a medium glass as two and a small glass as one and a half units.

Men are advised to drink no more than 21 units per week and women only 14."

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Airline passengers should be given the legal right to at least two inches more legroom to counter the threat of deep vein thrombosis

Airline passengers demand more legroom

Extract from the Telegraph:

"Airline passengers should be given the legal right to at least two inches more legroom to counter the threat of deep vein thrombosis (DVT), peers have said.

The gap should be widened from the current statutory minimum of 26 inches to at least 28.2 to take into account the fact that the travelling public were getting fatter and taller."

Obese people should be given the correct information/advice - namely that to lose weight easily and rapidly they need to give up dieting and concentrate instead on reducing their intake of salt/sodium and salty food.

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Food watchdogs are to clamp down on the use of unhealthy trans fats in fast food, biscuits and cakes.

Food watchdog wants to trim use of trans fats

from the Telegraph:

"Food watchdogs are to clamp down on the use of unhealthy trans fats used in fast food, biscuits and cakes.

The board of the Food Standards Agency is reviewing its advice to the Government on the health impact of artificial trans fats - chemically-altered vegetable oils that are more harmful than any other form of fat."

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Medical screening services may do more harm than good - e.g. those that use ionising radiation

Medical screening services may do more harm than good, warns expert

Extract from the Independent:

"A leading specialist has launched a broadside against the medical screening industry for peddling unproved procedures that cause more harm than good.

Professor Nicholas Wald, the director of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine in London, says hi-tech screening services which promise to detect early signs of heart disease, cancer and other conditions are being promoted by commercial organisations as a dubious way of reducing health risks. Clinics offering body scans, virtual colonoscopies of the bowel, and mole assessments for skin cancer have sprung up around the country charging up to £1,000 per test.

One firm advertises its scans as an "MOT for the body". The scans have become fashionable gifts for people reaching milestone birthdays of 40, 50 or 60.

But critics say the scans often reveal abnormalities without being able to distinguish those that indicate serious disease. Many patients then need further checks, causing them sleepless nights with anxiety before they are cleared. At the same time, the scans deliver a hefty dose of radiation."

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Food companies including Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Mars and Burger King have signed a European Union pledge to stop marketing junk food to children under 12.

Food companies sign EU ad pledge

Extract from the Guardian:

"An alliance of food companies including Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Mars and Burger King have signed a European Union pledge to stop marketing junk food to children under 12 years old.

The group of 11 companies, which represent more than 50% of the food and beverage advertising spend in the EU, have agreed to stop running junk food ads on TV, in print and on the internet to under-12s by the end of 2008.

The alliance, which also includes PepsiCo, Kraft, Unilever, Danone and Ferrero, have agreed not to market products in primary schools, except where "specifically requested by or agreed with the school administration for educational purposes".

A number of the companies, such as Coca-Cola, Kraft and Mars, have previously agreed a US responsible marketing code around advertising to children.

The difference with this new programme, called the EU Pledge, is that the 11 companies have agreed to have independently verified monitoring of their reduction in marketing, from January 2009."

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Obesity can weaken the body's immune system and reduce its ability to fight off infections

Obesity may harm immune system

Extracts from the Guardian:

"Obesity can weaken the body's immune system and reduce its ability to fight off infections, according to scientists.

Previous studies have hinted at a link between obesity and increased risk of bacterial infections, but there has been little research into how serious the effects are.

It is a pressing issue because obesity has reached epidemic proportions. In the UK, more than a fifth of adults are obese and of the remaining population half of men and a third of women are overweight.

Worldwide, there are an estimated 300 million obese people and obesity is already linked to heart disease, diabetes and premature death."

"Though it is unclear exactly what causes obesity to affect the immune response, the researchers suggested that gaining weight might upset a mechanism in the body that reacts to foreign organisms. They added that the effect would have implications for many bacterial infections."

I have long known that obesity weakens the body's immune response and I suggest that the reason is the impaired nutrition of most obese people - impaired because most obese people do not eat enough. - Most of the time they are 'dieting' - i.e. eating insufficient food, because they are constantly told by experts that dieting is necessary for them to lose weight. - But it is NOT necessary. - Obesity is caused by fluid retention, not by over-eating. - I hope that the day will soon dawn when those estimated 300 million obese people worldwide are told the truth: that dieting is unnecessary, ineffective and, indeed, harmful, and that they can rapidly and safely lose excess fluid/weight by cutting out salt/sodium and salty food.

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