In the last decade several scientific publications have highlighted concerns over ultra-processed foods (UPF’s) and cancer, cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality. Clearly the evidence ...
Lorraine Tulloch, Programme Lead, Obesity Action Scotland Would you support a ban on junk food advertising? The majority of Scottish adults would. We, in Obesity Action Scotland, have recently ...
We are delighted to announce Kinga Elliot as this year’s recipients of the SCPN Art and Design prize for Creative Communication. Kinga is a third year painting student at Gray’ School of Art ...
Saturday the 27th of April saw The NIHR Cancer and Nutrition Infrastructure Collaboration https://cancerandnutrition.nihr.ac.uk/ organise a satellite meeting to the European Congress on Obesity ...
Sleep disturbance is something that can affect us all from time to time– it impacts on quality of life and how well we can manage everyday life as well as our motivation to engage in activity ...
On March 7th, 2019 the Scottish Women’s Football (SWF) launched their newest sponsorship agreement with Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP). The National Performance League, the ...
The incidence of cancer in Scotland has been decreasing over time, when taking the age and sex demographic of the population into account. In the decade to 2017, incidence fell from 655 to 619 ...
Volunteers’ Week 2019 took place from the 1st-7th June. The week is a time to celebrate and highlight the benefits volunteering brings, not only to beneficiaries but also to the volunteers ...
A new World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) report has looked at whether diet, weight and physical activity affect the risk of developing skin cancer. The findings show that unlike many other ...
Body fatness at a young age and risks of eight types of cancer: systematic review and meta analysis of observational studies K. Hidayat X. Du and B M. Shi (2018). Obes Rev. ...
