The SCPN Newsletter: Latest Articles
Following on from the publication of the Foresight Report1 by the previous UK Government, there is now a broad recognition that the obesity epidemic is largely driven by changes in modern ...
In recent years, skiing has been increasingly popular as a winter sport. As the memories of summer fade away, most people don’t think to use sun protection during their winter holidays in ski ...
There is still considerable debate about the fractions of cancer mortality due to ‘environmental’ factors. Related morbidity tends to be ignored. Doll and Peto’s 1981 best estimate for ...
Three leading health charities: the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK and Diabetes UK, have banded together to raise awareness of the dangers of visceral fat – a major contributor ...
High in energy, fat and salt and low in fruit and vegetables – the Scottish diet is notoriously poor. Only 22% of Scots meet the recommended daily intake of five portions of fruit or ...
The Department of Health has recently published new physical activity guidelines. This report by the Chief Medical Officer produced UK-wide guidelines for all four of the home countries for the ...
It is vitally important that people living with cancer are given correct advice on staying active by professionally trained fitness instructors able to design individualised safe and effective ...
“Vitamin D is known to be low in the general population” stated the Chief Medical Officer for Scotland recently. To improve matter, health professionals have been issued with a new advisory ...
The FFIT (Football Fans in Training) programme is an innovative venture run by the Scottish Premier League and The New football pools which will be evaluated by a team from the Universities of ...
The WHO First International Conference on Environmental and Occupational Determinants of Cancer has created a list of objectives it aims to achieve in the coming years. These include: ...