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There is a lot of fitness information out there, much of which won’t help you to meet your goals. Below are just some of the myths: • You can just burn off all the junk food that you had this weekend It’s not that easy. The quality of the things we e...

Poorer families will not be unfairly targeted by a sugar tax, the Ministry of Health said yesterday. The consultation paper on the tax explained that the proposal is designed to help people be healthier and discourage importers from bringing in high...

Halting the rise in obesity and diabetes will be the focus of a symposium in January. As the island marks World Diabetes Day today, the Ministry of Health repeated that it is working towards a national strategy to deal with the problem. Health mini...

Obesity and diabetes could cost Bermuda $26 million in health insurance claims over the next decade, Kim Wilson warned today. The Minister of Health told the House of Assembly that this figure does not include indirect costs, such as the impact on o...

Campaigners fear the public are “turned off” by obesity risks despite its crippling impact on Bermuda’s health and economy. More than 8,000 people suffer from lifestyle and diet-linked type 2 diabetes, with 157 patients on dialysis at the hospital, a...

Ayesha Peets Talbot saw herself as the heroic hospital doctor, providing specialised care for the seriously ill. Instead, she became a bariatric specialist; her job is to stop people from reaching that point. The crossroads came in her final year of ...

A new documentary aims to change the way Bermudians think about eating. Produced by Bermuda Media, Greezin sheds light on the lifestyle choices behind the island’s obesity epidemic and associated health problems. “It clearly illustrates where we are,...

The ‘Commit to Change’ fair comes to City Hall this Thursday to mark World Health Day. The event, from 11am to 2pm, will show members of the public how to live a healthier life - with free health screenings, food tasting, a mini farmers market, physi...

Melanie Gardiner embarked on a six-year course to become a nutritional therapist after she found out she had coeliac disease. Now more than halfway through her studies, the mother of one is channelling her spare time and energy into implementing a n...

People are being urged to take personal responsibility in the fight against obesity and poor health. Doctors alone cannot do it all, according to Dy-Juan DeRoza, the Assessment Officer for the Department of Health’s Epidemiology and Surveillance Uni...

More must be done to address the growing issue of obesity and diabetes, according to local endocrinologist Annabel Fountain. A recent study found that almost three-quarters of participants were overweight or obese, while 42 per cent of adults reporte...

It is easy to judge fat people. The thin among us assume they sit around stuffing their faces with junk food, and that they are lazy and never exercise. According to Ayesha Peets Talbot, those preconceptions are not fair. The 34-year-old medic is the...