Sugary drinks duty will save countless teeth, charity says
A 20p per litre duty on sugary drinks would help to eradicate tooth decay and save the NHS millions of pounds in wasted resources.
December 22, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: 20p-per, diet, duty-on-sugary, eradicate-tooth, litre-duty, nhs, nutrition, oncalldiets, save-the-nhs, sugary-drinks
Boosting length of breastfeeding could save NHS more than £40 million every year
Doubling the number of mums who breastfeed for 7-18 months in their lifetime and helping others to continue for at least four months could save the NHS more than £40 million every year, suggests…
December 5, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: doubling-the-number, million-every, months, nhs, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, save-the-nhs, the-number, their-lifetime
Politicians must value our children as much as the elderly or Britain faces ‘serious consequences’, says top children’s doctor
Children’s doctors are today issuing a stark warning to the next Government – claiming if politicians don’t get to grips with improving child health, the economic and social burden on the NHS will…
November 18, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: claiming-if-politicians, diet, economic, government, improving-child, nhs, nutrition, nutritional counseling, on call diets, stark-warning, the-economic, today-issuing
Vitamin D May Help Treat Asthma
Researchers in London have identified a mechanism through which vitamin D can significantly reduce the symptoms of asthma and suggest it may offer a new way to treat the debilitating condition, which in the UK alone affects around 5.4 million people and costs the NHS around £1 billion a year…
May 21, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: alone-affects, costs-the-nhs, debilitating, million-people, nhs, oncalldietitian.com, reduce-the-symptoms, respiratory / asthma, symptoms, treat-the-debilitating
