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Posted onMore than £13m has been given to a town’s trust to continue its work improving the health and wellbeing of local residents. The money from Luton Rising, the Luton Borough Council company that owns London Luton Airport, has been given to Active Luton to secure investment in leisure and library services until 2030. The council…
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How will weight-loss drugs change our relationship with food?
Posted onBBC We are now in the era of weight-loss drugs. Decisions on how these drugs will be used look likely to shape our future health and even what our society might look like. And, as researchers are finding, they are already toppling the belief that obesity is simply a moral failing of the weak-willed. Weight-loss…
Moment of reckoning needed in social care, says Louise Casey
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