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Health news 6th September 2011

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Health secretary: 'we must reverse obesity crisis'
Mr Lansley said that it was vital to reverse the large increase in obesity in the UK. One way of making people take more responsibility, he said, was to give them more information. "One in six meals are now eaten outside the home and for those meals we often have no idea how many calories we are eating," the health secretary said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...secretary-we-must-reverse-obesity-crisis.html

Women at risk of cancer told: Have your ovaries removed

Women with a family history of breast or ovarian cancer should have their ovaries taken out when they are 40, a leading scientist has declared. Professor Gareth Evans claims it is the only way to protect against deadly tumours which cannot be picked up by screening.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2034154/Women-risk-cancer-told-Have-ovaries-removed.html

Killers lurking in your family tree: Will your relatives' health problems be passed on to you and your children?
Tara Sinclair always considered her family to be healthy. ?My sister, brother and I are all hale and hearty, and rarely ill,? says the 39-year-old from Lichfield, Staffordshire.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...elatives-health-problems-passed-children.html

Cervical cancer operation that saves women's fertility

About 3,000 women a year are diagnosed with cervical cancer and for many the only option has been a hysterectomy. Emmeline Collin, 34, a bank worker from Whittlesey, near Peterborough, underwent a procedure that spared her fertility.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...-cancer-operation-saves-womens-fertility.html
 
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