More than a billion people around the world will be obese by 2030 – double the number there was in 2010, according to new global estimates . No country is on track to meet the World Health Organizati…
Letter to the Editor , The Sunday Times - Ireland, Sunday 16.1.2022. The full paper, co-written with my colleague Dr Audrey Tierney is here
from SMC Express, November 2021 According to the latest available data, Ireland has the second highest rate of obesity in EU, with more than a quarter of the adult population classified as such. A su…
Greece got Bronze! Yes! Did you know that... the Irish shopping basket contained 45.9 per cent ultra processed foods, making Ireland the third highest consumer after Britain (50.7 per cent) and Ger…
photo is from here This is not a secret! The more junk food we eat, the worse is our blood and long-term prognosis for chronic diseases. This is a recent article linking fast/junk food to risk marker…
Over the past 3 decades the prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased markedly in Ireland and worldwide. In the Republic of Ireland it is currently estimated that 60% of adults and 25% of …
New Aquafeed article (November 2017 issue) On October 11, 2017, the World Health Organisation (WHO) released some rather worrying data: we are getting fatter and fatter at alarming rates In detail…
According to WHO, t he number of obese children and adolescents (aged five to 19 years) worldwide has risen tenfold in the past four decades. If current trends continue, more children and adolesc…
