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Healthy Eating Week 2019
Earlier this summer the Get Healthy Rotherham team took part in the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) Healthy Eating Week. Each day we completed a new challenge: Have breakfast - helping to get the day off to a good start by providing some of the energy and nutrients th
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Love Your Heart This Valentine's Day
Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for 17.9 million deaths each year, 31% of all global deaths. Poor cardiovascular health can cause heart attacks, strokes, heart failure, chronic kidney disease, peripheral arterial disease and
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Obesity - The Scale of the Problem
Obesity is a complex issue. In England, one in three children are overweight or obese by the time they leave primary school and this rises to two in three in adulthood. Not only does this impact on the individual and their health and wellbeing, it also impacts our society.
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Alcohol and Smoking
For many people who smoke, drinking alcohol and having a cigarette often go hand in hand. If we look back, alcohol and cigarettes have generally been sidekicks rooted in the pub culture where you could enjoy a cigarette and a drink without having to go outside into designat
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Alcohol and breast cancer
Every year over 55,100 people in the UK are diagnosed with breast cancer with alcohol causing 1 in 13 cases. Alcohol increases the level of oestrogen in the bloodstream and long-term exposure to oestrogens increases the risk of developing breast cancer. Drinkaware and Pu
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Fancying a challenge this February?
Are you a chocoholic and fancying a challenge this February? Dechox is a nationwide challenge to give up chocolate throughout February by the British Heart Foundation. This means anything with cocoa in it is off limits - from the sprinkles on your cappuccino, to that 3pm
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Is your New Year's Resolution to be more healthy?
08 January 2019 Is your New Year’s Resolution to be more healthy? Whether it’s stopping smoking, losing weight, eating more healthily or being more active, then Get Healthy Rotherham could help you. Our service offers FREE, specialist support to anyone
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Have you had your FREE NHS Health Check?
Nearly 80,000 people in Rotherham aged 40-74 are eligible for a FREE NHS Health Check - the five yearly health assessment which can help people take steps to live a healthier lifestyle. The NHS Health Check offers an opportunity for people aged 40-74 years old to assess
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Dry January
Taking part in Dry January gives you a chance to ditch the hangover, reduce your waistline, and save some serious money by giving up alcohol for 31 days. Dry January is the annual movement run by the charity Alcohol Change UK which sees millions of people give up alcohol
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How Are You?
Christmas may be a time for overdoing things a little... But together we can make 2019 into the year you fight back to a healthier you. Find out how you really are and take the free health quiz... Over two million people already have... Visit https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/how-a
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