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Child Health 6 with the Clean Air Acts of the 1950S, but Don’T ‘Get’ Public Health Or Appear to Be This Could Not Be Further from the Truth THE FINAL WORD In this issue ‘ ’ > Camila Batmanghelidjh on the war against futility Josie Gibson won TV reality show Big Brother in > Why nekNominate is a sign of the times 2010. Following a series of comments and > Should we pay mums to breastfeed? photographs in the media about her weight, she The magazine of the UK Faculty of Public Health began to exercise more and eat sugar less www.fph.org.uk March 2014 FOR readers who don’t know who I am, sugar trap. A scary thought is that storage of fat. I went on a TV show about three years ago currently in the UK obesity rates have Sugar was my addiction and the thing and have been one of the lucky ones, as almost quadrupled in the past 25 years, that set me free was educating myself the show has given me a successful career and this rise has been accompanied by on diet and exercise. I found that after in doing what I love: helping people to lose a rise in sugar intake. Recent reports about 21 days of eating natural foods weight and get fit. I have struggled with and kicking the habit of sugar my mood my weight from the age of six, and it took swings and depression disappeared, and me 20 years to find the answer. This was one of the I had more energy than I had felt for a My key problem was the sheer amount long time. I really feel sorry for people of sugar I was consuming without even hardest achievements ‘ these days: it’s nearly impossible to have knowing it. What I thought was healthy of my life, and now I a healthy diet with the amount of food (white bread, tinned foods and low-fat want to make sure products that we wrongly deem to be ready meals) turned out, when I read the other people don’t good for us stacked in our shopping ingredients, to be full of sugar. By ‘ aisles. I am so glad we are raising identifying sugar and processed ingredients fall into the same awareness of the growing sugar epidemic in common foods and selecting healthy, sugar trap as I feel obesity has taken some of my natural ingredients instead, I was able to best years away from me. I am now an lose weight without dieting. I went from advanced nutrition advisor and a personal nearly 17 stone to my current size 10, and have also shown that fizzy drinks can trainer [Josie’s latest DVD, The 21 Day Fat I feel better than ever. contain up to nine teaspoons of sugar, Burn, is out now] and my mission in life This was one of the hardest and biggest which is more than enough to spike a rise is to help other people beat their addiction achievements of my life, and now I’ve in blood glucose and consequently insulin. to sugar. found the answer I want to make sure This can then lead to type 2 diabetes and other people don’t fall into the same other health concerns as well as excess Josie Gibson Editorial board Address: Information Andy Beckingham Faculty of Public Health Stella Botchway 4 St Andrews Place Matthew Day London ISSN – 2043-6580 David Dickinson NW1 4LB Jenny Hacker www.fph.org.uk Editor in chief Rachel Johns Alan Maryon-Davis Frances MacGuire Submissions Helen McAuslane If you have an idea for an article or special Managing editors Sally Millership feature, please submit a 50-word proposal Lindsey Stewart and Mag Connolly Thara Raj and suggested authors to: [email protected] Sowing the seeds of the future Leonora Weil The proposed subject of the special feature Commissioning editor in the September edition is The General Why children’s wellbeing today means better health tomorrow Liz Skinner Contact us: Election. Email: [email protected] Production editor Health Policy, Media & PR: 0203 696 1452 Richard Allen Education: 0203 696 1451 All articles are the opinion of the Professional Affairs: 0203 696 1453 authors and not Public Health Today is distributed to Business & Corporate Services: those of the Faculty over 3,300 public health specialists. To 0203 696 1455 of Public Health as advertise please contact Richard Allen an organisation at [email protected] Public Health Today FROM THE PRESIDENT UP FRONT The magazine of the UK Faculty of Public Health www.fph.org.uk swallowing the head of a young chick and Welcome Web drinking stubbing out a cigarette on his tongue in News in brief an online video, interspersed with heavy March 2014 HE role of president of the Faculty craze is ‘tip of drinking. Another 19-year-old was reported of Public Health (FPH) is very much to have downed three bottles of spirits T like a piece of string: it’s as much an iceberg’ before being found by his parents as you want to make of it. Notionally unconscious on the sofa covered in vomit. Significant drop in measles cases two days a week has felt very much in It’s the combination of heavy drinking There was a sharp fall in the number of Contents excess of the European working time and daring others to do the same on the cases of measles in England at the end of directive, but it is very satisfying. I have internet that makes nekNominate 2013, figures from Public Health England reported in the ebulletin on my first THE Faculty of Public Health (FPH) has been especially dangerous. “This has created a show. Twenty four people were infected round of visits to all parts of the UK prominent in warning about nekNominate, between October and December, in Up Front 3 which is nearing its conclusion. The a web-based drinking challenge that has contrast to the hundreds of cases each caused at least five deaths among young ‘ month at the beginning of the year. The good news is that the troops still have Social media and an appetite for changing the world and people as we went to press. FPH alcohol fall was put down to efforts to get more that our registrars coming through are spokesman Mark Bellis was widely quoted peer pressure are children vaccinated with the MMR jab. Interview with Camila of Physicians (RCP) of London of a an inspiration. The bad news is that and told BBC TV that the harm caused by Batmanghelidjh 4 working party on the impact of air combined with a Andrew Lansley’s reorganisation of the pollution. I am involved as a Council the drinking ‘game’ was probably the tip substance that makes Hair straighteners top child burns list of an iceberg. Professor Bellis was able to Hot mugs and hair straighteners are the NHS has had a devastating effect on Adviser of the RCP. Many people still think people very morale in some places and that a that air pollution in the UK disappeared use the media interest to broadcast the ‘ leading causes of childhood scalds and proportion of local authorities either public health message on the harm caused susceptible burns, and one-year-olds are at greatest Special Feature – Child Health 6 with the clean air acts of the 1950s, but don’t ‘get’ public health or appear to be this could not be further from the truth. by UK alcohol consumption. Speaking on risk, data reveals. Professor Alison Mary wilfully neglecting their duty of BBC Breakfast, he pointed out that around Kemp from Cardiff University and Playing politics 6 This working party under Stephen Holgate stewardship. There has been significant should make a significant contribution to one in five of all deaths in adults under 45 very dangerous cultural environment,” colleagues looked at admissions to three Government failing to protect children attrition of experienced staff, and there public health. For more information was linked to alcohol. Professor Bellis told the Telegraph. “A few leading burns units and five emergency from food advertising 7 have also been casualties. At the recent contact [email protected] NekNominate is a recent craze, thought things come together here, with social departments in the UK. meeting of the Academy of Medical I assumed the chairmanship of the FPH to have originated in Australia. People media and a real risk of peer pressure, Healthy children mean a healthy future 7 Royal Colleges, Clare Gerada reported International Committee in January and video themselves drinking to extremes and especially combined with a substance that Obese people in Wales ‘told to gain weight’ challenge others, usually ‘friends’, to do Life-saving treatments are being denied to Debate: Is breast necessarily best? 8 on the service she runs in London for together with our Chief Executive, David makes people very susceptible.” That gives sick and stressed doctors. She was clear Allen, am considering how best to put it the same. Some add other challenges or public health professionals a platform to obese people in Wales, a leading group of Stairway to haven 9 that our specialty has not been exempt on a strategic basis that is congruent video themselves taking stupid risks. The remind everyone – not just the very surgeons has said. The British Obesity and from the significant increase in those with the overall FPH strategy. I will report Daily Telegraph reported a youth young – of the dangers of abusing alcohol. Metabolic Surgery Society said morbidly Third of young people suffer seeking help. We all have a duty of care on this further in due course. Meanwhile obese people had been told to gain weight online abuse 10 towards each other, and I trust that David and the staff at St Andrews Place to qualify for bariatric surgery.
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