The SCPN Newsletter: Volume 7, Issue 3

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Dr Phyllis Easton, Health Intelligence Manager and Demonstration Programme lead, Making it Easy Survey statistics show that 23% of the Scottish population are likely to struggle with ...

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Fad Free Health

The Cancer Council Australia and other NGO’s have teamed up together to support people to try a healthier lifestyle. Always tricky in our obesogenic environment surrounded by promotions to ...

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Summertime Blues

Whether it’s the lack of summer weather or too much sun that is causing summertime blues, we thought this video might cheer you up. These very cute Dalmatians have a serious ...

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Ask the Expert – Dietary Guidance

Prof Annie S Anderson, Professor of Public Health Nutrition, University of Dundee Thank you twitter followers for a great set of questions relating to our articles on the revision of the ...

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“Eat, Sweat, Play” – Worth a read?

Sport England’s massive ‘This Girl Can’ campaign in 2015 reached out to women who may not have engaged with sport earlier in life or may have been “switched off” to ...

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‘Our children’s heroes shouldn’t be billboards and ambassadors for alcohol brands’

The SCPN recently came across this heart-warming story of the little man (backed by a group of alcohol campaigners) taking on the might of an international brewing empire. Everton FC is the last ...

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SCF Prize & Evans Forrest Medal

Nominations sought Do you know someone who has made a great contribution towards reducing the burden of cancer in Scotland? Would they be a worthy winner of the Scottish Cancer ...

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Using data to drive services

Jan Young, Scottish Government, Cancer Delivery Team Last month’s Public Health England (PHE) Cancer Data and Outcomes Conference 2016 focused on how data is used to drive services and ...

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Physical activity devices and applications – which one should I choose?

Dr Paul Kelly, Physical Activity for Health Research Centre (PAHRC), University of Edinburgh There is an ever increasing array of options now for the tech savvy (or not so savvy) to monitor their ...

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Is it time to rethink all the sugar related fundraising activities?

The BBC reported recently that the ‘office cake culture is a danger to health’. Prof Nigel Hunt, of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons was quoted as saying ...

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The SCPN Newsletter: Volume 7, Issue 3

In our penultimate issue of 2016, an overview of physical activity devices and apps (which one should you choose?), rethinking sugar-related fundraising activities and recognising and overcoming an alcohol addiction, as well as the usual breakdown of cancer prevention research and news from the Scottish Cancer Prevention Network.

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