Tag: overweight

Health experts plead with people “eat real food” after new study links Covid-19 deaths to poor diet

News

John Glover - April 20, 2020

HEALTH experts have issued warnings to people to eat "real food" after a new study revealed a link between Covid-19 deaths and poor diet. Leading...

Two-year-olds referred for obesity treatment by Scots health board

In Brief

Kirsty Stewart - September 6, 2017

THIRTY children aged between two and four were referred for obesity management treatment by a Scottish health board last year. NHS Lothian referred a total...

Anti-fat attitude classes should be rolled out in schools, scientists claim

Entertainment

Kirsty Stewart - January 10, 2016

ANTI-FAT attitude classes should be rolled out in schools to stop overweight people being bullied, scientists claim. Scottish researchers are calling for an “attitude intervention”...

Ambulance chiefs spend £3.5m on kit for fat Scots as obesity call outs more than double

Health

Deadline News Journalist - September 24, 2015

AMBULANCE chiefs have been forced to spend an estimated £3.5m on specialist equipment to treat Scots patients weighing up to 70 stone. The move follows...

Obese Scots have to be buried – because their bodies don’t fit into furnaces

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - August 16, 2015

OBESE Scots are being buried rather than cremated - because their coffins are too big for traditional furnaces. Funeral directors have warned that Britain’s obesity...