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Peer to Peer: School Fruit Micro Business

July 28, 2011
School Fruit Micro Business

The RedBranch school-fruit micro-business is a peer-led initiative that helps senior students to promote fruit to their younger peers. The initiative is basically a small business run by students – who are responsible for the ordering, marketing and distribution of the fruit. The programme encourages the consumption of fruit during the school day and leads [...]

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Scale of Global Diabetes Epidemic: 347 Million

July 28, 2011
Diabetes linked to poor diet and being inactive

A major international study collating and analyzing worldwide data on diabetes since 1980 has found that the number of adults with the disease reached 347 million in 2008, more than double the number in 1980. Type 2 diabetes is closely linked to poor diet and inadequate levels of physical activity – being more common in [...]

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Parents for Health

July 15, 2011
Family walking on path holding hands smiling

In June 2011 RedBranch launched a pilot initiative for parents in the UK & Ireland. The initiative is called Parents for Health and will empower parents to change family lifestyle habits. Parents have a key role to play in preventing chronic disease in the next generation. The initiative will give parents the necessary support to make positive changes, and will create a social support structure for parents to help make lifestyle changes sustainable.

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Curing Type 2 Diabetes?

July 14, 2011
Overweight Obesity Health

New research underlines the importance of healthy lifestyle in the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes– an issue RedBranch has been championing for years. The research, carried out at Newcastle University, suggests that type 2 diabetes can be cured by a low calorie diet. Type 2 diabetes is a long term condition caused by [...]

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Increasing Physical Activity: Focus on How, not Why

June 1, 2011
cycling for health

Sedentary lifestyles are a major health issue, being linked to the on-going global obesity epidemic. In a new study, University of Missouri researchers found that healthy adults who received interventions focused on behaviour-changing strategies significantly increased their physical activity levels. Conversely, interventions based on cognitive approaches, which try to change knowledge and attitudes, did not [...]

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