2008-Q3 (July-Sept)
Alliance Alerts for July to September 2008.
- Hollywood stars were paid to smoke
- 28 Sep 2008 | Tobacco endorsement rife in mid-20th century
- Companies save in promoting health
- 26 Sep 2008 | Lower insurance costs for businesses engaged in health promotion
- Estimating the economic burden of CVD
- 25 Sep 2008 | Brazil: the cost is billions of dollars each year
- Evidence on overweight and heart attack
- 23 Sep 2008 | Obesity can be more of an influence even than smoking
- Exercise can ‘cut diabetes risk' in women
- 18 Sep 2008 | 7-week programme shown to increase chance of staying healthy
- How to avoid over half of early deaths
- 17 Sep 2008 | Latest from major study points to impact of healthy living
- How active are your kids?
- 12 Sep 2008 | New data suggest UK parents greatly overestimate activity levels
- Russia: regulator takes tobacco action
- 11 Sep 2008 | BAT threatened with legal action on rights infringement
- Smoking ban announced in India
- 09 Sep 2008 | From October, smoking will be prohibited in public places
- Pollution a factor in overweight?
- 07 Sep 2008 | Study claims exposure in womb leads to increase in chance of obesity
- Take the stairs for life!
- 04 Sep 2008 | Small study on benefits of jettisoning use of the lift
- Second-hand smoke in Brazil
- 03 Sep 2008 | Passive smoking kills seven urban dwellers a day
- Fruit & veg: a recipe for a healthy economy
- 01 Sep 2008 | More evidence on wide benefits of healthy diets
- ‘Closing the gap’
- 28 Aug 2008 | Final Report of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health
- Sign the World Cancer Declaration
- 27 Aug 2008 | Help to galvanise action on cancer prevention
- China: MSG and obesity
- 27 Aug 2008 | Study links food additive to overweight
- Impact of Australian anti-smoking ads
- 25 Aug 2008 | Evidence of effect of graphic ads on tobacco habits
- Old neighbourhoods are less obesogenic
- 20 Aug 2008 | More US evidence on impact of built environment on physical activity
- Is Olympic fortnight inspiring exercise...
- 18 Aug 2008 | ... or merely encouraging couch potatoes?
- Plan to increase fruit and veg intake
- 14 Aug 2008 | Government help for corner shops in England


