An NHS leaflet which urged kids to exercise during TV ad breaks has been shelved after being branded ‘patronising’ and’ unrealistic’ by angry parents.
Red-faced health chiefs were forced to withdraw the booklet, designed to curb growing child obesity levels in the UK, after several complaints from focus groups.
An obesity drug has been approved for use in England and Wales – despite carrying a risk of depression or even suicide.
Do not exceed dosage… do not drink excessive alcohol… do not operate heavy machinery… do not listen to Nick Drake and look through old pictures of your ex who has Moved On Spectacularly.
Pregnant women and toddlers have been targeted in a new £40m anti-obesity initiative in Scotland.
Obesity rates north of the border have hit record levels, with around one in five Scots clinically obese. It costs the NHS £200m a year.
And chiefs are determined to tackle it – starting with mums-to-be and under fives in deprived areas.
Millions of people have a ‘fat gene’ that makes them more greedy than others.
If you are one of these unfortunates, you’ll take in an extra 300 calories in the course of an average day. Over time, this will lead to being overweight, and even obese.
Ladies who stuff it in first thing stay fuller for longer, snack less, lose weight and keep it off. Sounds like a convincing argument for an almighty grill-up.
We’ve always known breakfast was the most important meal of the day because our mum told us, but now there’s science fact as well as mum fact to back it up.
Who said men could not careless about how their bodies look?
In fact, according to the most predictable health and diet survey since yesterday, men are just as keen as women to get rid of their flabby arms and stomachs as women.
Or at least in the UK they are. Not that we are saying other men around the world are not interested in shedding the pounds. No way!!
Student-music’s answer to Dawn French, fashion lesbian Beth Ditto, has jumped aboard the Britton-bashing.
Speaking at the Glamour Awards this week, The Gossip’s Beth Ditto chastised Fern Britton for her decision to lose weight through a gastric band operation.
The Mediterranean way of life has long been hailed as the healthiest for brain and body and now it could be put on the world heritage list. But with Spain facing its own obesity crisis, should we really be bigging it up?
Spain – along with buddies Italy, Greece and Morocco – reckons the Mediterranean diet is so traditional and good for us that it should be put on the world heritage list.
But what exactly constitutes the Mediterranean diet?
Fancy munching on a plate of locusts? Or even a maggot salad?
No? Ok, how about some wasps and rice?
Doesn’t exactly tickle the taste buds, does it? But such a diet could well be the solution to the growing world food crisis.
The number of patients choosing gastric surgery in order to lose weight has risen dramatically, new figures reveal.
A whopping 41% average increase in the number of gastric bypasses performed on obese people was recorded in the UK in 2006-7.
These figures have prompted claims that the Government is not doing enough to prevent the spiralling obesity epidemic.
The average woman spends a decade of her life on a diet.
According to a poll conducted by natural weightloss supplement manufacturers LIPObind, ladies will go on 104 diets between the ages of 18 and 70 – that’s two a year!
As the average length of a diet is around five weeks, that works out to be around 10 years. Ten years?! Now that’s a long time to deny yourself what you really want to eat.
And if we were a tabloid we’d put man in snarky apostrophes, but we’re just a little bit classier here at DietPixie.
Of course we all know the story. It’s age old. Man meets woman. Falls in love. They decide to have a baby. Man used to be woman until sex change op. Well, partial sex change op. Man still has some of his old womanly bits knocking about. Man carries baby. Goes on Oprah. And now… man has given birth to baby girl.
It’s a beautiful thing.
If only more men gave birth to babies. Maybe then we’d get a bit more bloody understanding about how much it Bloody Hurts. Oh well.
Thomas, 34, was born a lady, but took hormones and had his breasts removed to live as a man. He always hoped to get pregnant one day though, so he kept his female sex organs, telling Oprah it was down to his “human desire” and “right to have my own biological child.”
Some stuffy old squares didn’t agree though, largely the Christian right of America who went flipping apeshit.
His wife Nancy, 45, already has grown-up children and cannot have more biologically after having a hysterectomy.
Look out for exclusive pics in whichever glossy mag has the deepest pockets, very soon.
Picture: Morguefile
And if we were a tabloid we’d put man in snarky apostrophes, but we’re just a little bit classier here at DietPixie.
Of course we all know the story. It’s age old. Man meets woman. Falls in love. They decide to have a baby. Man used to be woman until sex change op. Well, partial sex change op. Man still has some of his old womanly bits knocking about. Man carries baby. Goes on Oprah. And now… man has given birth to baby girl.
It’s a beautiful thing.
If only more men gave birth to babies. Maybe then we’d get a bit more bloody understanding about how much it Bloody Hurts. Oh well.
Thomas, 34, was born a lady, but took hormones and had his breasts removed to live as a man. He always hoped to get pregnant one day though, so he kept his female sex organs, telling Oprah it was down to his “human desire” and “right to have my own biological child.”
Some stuffy old squares didn’t agree though, largely the Christian right of America who went flipping apeshit.
His wife Nancy, 45, already has grown-up children and cannot have more biologically after having a hysterectomy.
Look out for exclusive pics in whichever glossy mag has the deepest pockets, very soon.
Picture: Morguefile
And if we were a tabloid we’d put man in snarky apostrophes, but we’re just a little bit classier here at DietPixie.
Of course we all know the story. It’s age old. Man meets woman. Falls in love. They decide to have a baby. Man used to be woman until sex change op. Well, partial sex change op. Man still has some of his old womanly bits knocking about. Man carries baby. Goes on Oprah. And now… man has given birth to baby girl.
It’s a beautiful thing.
If only more men gave birth to babies. Maybe then we’d get a bit more bloody understanding about how much it Bloody Hurts. Oh well.
Thomas, 34, was born a lady, but took hormones and had his breasts removed to live as a man. He always hoped to get pregnant one day though, so he kept his female sex organs, telling Oprah it was down to his “human desire” and “right to have my own biological child.”
Some stuffy old squares didn’t agree though, largely the Christian right of America who went flipping apeshit.
His wife Nancy, 45, already has grown-up children and cannot have more biologically after having a hysterectomy.
Look out for exclusive pics in whichever glossy mag has the deepest pockets, very soon.
Picture: Morguefile
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