Today we are launching our Why Be Fat? campaign. During the run up to the holiday season we will be focusing on how you can lose weight and get fit. The Why Be Fat? campaign will look at the fun ways to get into shape, plus re-examine popular weight loss diets and take a look [...]

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Many people know what a healthy weight is, it is often to tell if someone is a healthy weight just by looking at them. One way that it used to determine if you are underweight or overweight, is to use the body mass index. A body mass index (BMI) of between 18.5 and 24.9 means [...]

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Recent research carried out by Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, and published in the British Journal of Cancer, shows that obesity increases risk of developing pancreatic cancer. The research revealed that obese women are 70% more likely to develop pancreatic cancer than women of a healthy weight. Carrying excess weight around the stomach is the greatest cause [...]

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