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President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, and the Reestablishment of the Presidential Fitness Test (Trump EO Tracker)

Reestablishes the Presidential Fitness Test and revitalizes the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition to promote youth participation in sports, improve national health, and address rising rates of obesity and...more

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What’s next for UK HFSS regulation?

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First introduced in 2007 and ramping up in the last few years, several restrictions have been put in place in the UK to limit the promotion and advertising of food and drink products that are high in fat, sugar or salt...more

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MAHA Picks Up Momentum with the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission

On February 13, the Senate approved Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services and the White House shortly thereafter issued an Executive Order establishing the Make America Healthy...more

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Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission (Trump EO Tracker)

This order establishes a policy of the federal government to aggressively combat health challenges facing Americans, including mental health, obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. The order establishes the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission

This order establishes a policy of the federal government to aggressively combat health challenges facing Americans, including mental health, obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. The order establishes the...more

Maynard Nexsen

Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 179: Obesity Effects on the Workforce & Economy with Tim...

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Recorded at SCBIO’s 2024 annual meeting, hosts Heather and Lauren welcome healthcare economist and GlobalData Director Tim Dall, who has studied the economic burden of chronic disease for over 25 years. The group discusses...more

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Soft Drinks Industry Levy ("SDIL") – how we can help you

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The policy behind SDIL is to reduce childhood obesity by encouraging producers to change the recipes and lower the sugar content of the drinks. The Government estimates that over 50% of manufacturers had done so before SDIL...more

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That’s The Last Straw: California Places New Restrictions On Restaurants

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On September 20, 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law AB 1884 and SB 1192, which prohibit certain restaurants from offering plastic straws and restrict the default beverage in kid’s meals to water or milk....more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

Better Healthcare Newsletter from Patrick Malone - September 2018

So is the medical journal the Lancet correct that the only safe amount of booze to drink is zero? That was the upshot of a big global study the prestigious British journal published recently. What about the opposite idea,...more

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