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Health check: how to tackle childhood obesity

Health check: how to tackle childhood obesity

By Lydia Sherlock
Obesity is a growing (excuse the pun) problem in the UK, especially in children.
Obesity levels have trebled since the 1980s and a 2007 study carried out for the Department of Health predicts that if current trends continue, 60% of men and 50% of women will be obese by 2050. One in [...]

Go vege for an attractive glow

Go vege for an attractive glow

A vegetarian diet will make you more attactive to the opposite sex, a study by Bristol University claims.
Instead of a suntan, like perma-tanned Katie Price, a healthy English rose glow, as seen on model  model Rosie Huntington Whiteley, gets temperatures rising. TV babes Holly Willoughby, 29, and Louise Redknapp, 35, swere also cited as examples [...]

Paramedics let train take strain of emergency

Paramedics let train take strain of emergency

Paramedics borrowed a 1950s steam train to transport an injured cyclist to safety after he collided with another rider on a cycle path between Bristol and Bath yesterday.

Bristol MS charity to continue fight for new care centre

Bristol MS charity to continue fight for new care centre

A charity building a respite centre for sufferers of multiple sclerosis has vowed to fight a decision by councillors to refuse planning permission for an access road.

Invitation to Denise as Bristol named first ‘baby friendly’ city

Invitation to Denise as Bristol named first ‘baby friendly’ city

Denise van Outen has given up breastfeeding in public on the day Bristol becomes the first city in the UK to be awarded ‘Baby Friendly’ status by UNICEF UK.

Bristol daredevils wanted to raise cash for cancer research

Bristol daredevils wanted to raise cash for cancer research

A group of Bristol volunteer fundraisers have come together to raise money for Cancer Research UK – by organising a sponsored leap across the Avon Gorge.

‘Clever’ study reveals brain’s control of blood pressure

‘Clever’ study reveals brain’s control of blood pressure

Scientists at Bristol University have been able to completely prevent high blood pressure in animal tests by blocking signals between the brain and kidneys.

MP backs family’s fight to end wheelchair lottery for disabled

MP backs family’s fight to end wheelchair lottery for disabled

A Bristol man whose younger brother was struck down with a muscle-wasting condition has won the support of his local MP for better wheelchair services.

Ambulance staff can ‘feel proud’ of service improvement

Ambulance staff can ‘feel proud’ of service improvement

Staff at Great Western Ambulance Service can feel “rightly proud”, said the service’s chief executive, after it became the most improved ambulance service in England last year.

Bristol mum backs call for ban on smoking in cars

Bristol mum backs call for ban on smoking in cars

A mother from Bristol who is dying from a lung disease, despite never having smoked a cigarette in her life, is backing a campaign to ban smoking in cars when children are passengers.