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Liverpool Food and Health Strategy 2010-2014 - Taste for Health. Find your way: Home / News / Liverpool Food and Health Strategy 2010-2014 Taste for Health Strategy is a timely reminder of how important food is to our health and well being.

Liverpool Food and Health Strategy 2010-2014 - Taste for Health

The food choices that we make are influenced by many factors including confidence, self esteem, cooking skills, availability, food miles, sustainability, cost and cultural factors. This strategy recognises the complexity of these issues and aims to raise awareness of food in its social and cultural context. The social, environmental and economic circumstances in which people live will vary within and between communities in Liverpool and this will impact on the food they choose to consume. Meet your Urban Farmer - Inner City Farms (extended version) Urban agriculture: multi-dimensional tools for social development in poor neighbourhoods. 1 Generally speaking, UA can be described, as much inside as on the periphery of an urban zone, as i (...) 1Of the measures taken which tend to reduce poverty and promote social and economic development, urban agriculture1 has been shown to play an important role in developing countries (Smit et al., 1996; Mougeot, 2006).

Urban agriculture: multi-dimensional tools for social development in poor neighbourhoods

Although this practice is still often considered to be a temporary or marginal activity that does not lead to sustainable urban development, urban agriculture (UA) improves economic conditions as well as the health of poor and vulnerable families and, more specifically, of women and children. 2According to Smit et al. (1996), 800 million people worldwide practice urban agriculture.

Two hundred million of them are involved in market production, and 150 million are employed full-time. These people produce approximately 15% of the world’s food products. 3Urban agriculture combines agricultural issues with those related to city development. Figure 1. Collective gardens. Benefits Street series sparks hundreds of complaints. 8 January 2014Last updated at 07:55 ET Fungi is a resident featured prominently in Benefits Street The first episode of a documentary series about residents of a deprived street in Birmingham have prompted almost 300 complaints to Ofcom.

Benefits Street series sparks hundreds of complaints

Viewers of Benefit Street were concerned about the negative portrayal of benefits claimants and the depiction of criminal activity. One sequence showed two men removing alarm tags from clothing apparently stolen from a shop. Channel 4 said makers acted in a "purely observational capacity". "At no stage was criminal behaviour encouraged or condoned. Benefits Street? It's nothing like the James Turner Street we researched. "James Turner Street?

Benefits Street? It's nothing like the James Turner Street we researched

I'm sure I've heard of it," I mused, when watching the trailer for the first episode of Channel 4's Benefits Street. But it didn't look like or seem to be the same street that I was soon to recall. NHS ill-prepared to cope with obese patients. Obese patients take up extra bed spaces in hospital, require more staff to treat them and need an array of super-strength equipment to withstand their weight as part of their growing burden on the NHS, physiotherapists have said.

NHS ill-prepared to cope with obese patients

Other patients can miss out on treatment because those who are dangerously overweight need two physiotherapists for their session, while fewer beds have been fitted into some wards because obese patients use bigger ones. "These patients in general take more than one therapist to treat, require more expensive equipment to treat, and the time trying to locate equipment increases the treatment time," one physiotherapist told a survey conducted by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.

Very heavy patients also use more NHS resources by staying in hospital for longer, though that can be because of delays in obtaining specialist equipment to help them cope when they get home after discharge, the physiotherapist added. Latest obesity stats for England are alarming - Health News. Thursday February 21 2013 Obesity rates continue to rise Most of the UK news media is covering the latest official NHS statistics on obesity, physical activity and diet in England.

Latest obesity stats for England are alarming - Health News

The data, compiled by the Health and Social Care Information Centre, relates to information gathered during 2011. The statistics paint an alarming picture that reveals that the obesity epidemic in England shows no signs of abating anytime soon. What were the key findings? Obesity The proportion of adults with a healthy body mass index (BMI) – defined as being between 18.5 and 25 – fell to just 34% in men and 39% in women during 2011. Health outcomes In 2011, 53% of obese men and 44% of obese women were found to have high blood pressure. Is there any good news? Well, as bleak as the picture may appear, there are some cautious reasons for optimism that include: What is driving the epidemic? UK supermarkets reject 'wasted food' report claims.

10 January 2013Last updated at 13:16 ET The report said half the food bought in Europe and the US ended up in the bin Britain's biggest supermarkets have been defending their practices after a report suggested that up to half of the world's food is thrown away.

UK supermarkets reject 'wasted food' report claims

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers said the waste was being caused by poor storage, strict sell-by dates, bulk offers and consumer fussiness. The British Retail Consortium said supermarkets have "adopted a range of approaches" to combat waste. They also lobbied the EU to relax laws stopping the sale of misshaped produce. According to the report - Global Food; Waste Not, Want Not - from the UK-based institution, as much as half of the world's food, amounting to two billion tonnes worth, is wasted.