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- Would you like a chance to showcase your success? - Would you like to win a fully funded place at the BAPEN meeting December 2012 incorporating the Annual PENG study day? - Do you carry out audits, have an interesting case study to share, are you innovative in dietetic practice? - Are you able to demonstrate measuring a dietetic outcome? If you answer "Yes" and are a current PENG member* – then why not apply for the PENG Award 2012? Applications for PEN Group Award 2012 are now open, deadline 31st August 2012. WHY should you apply? In recognition of how difficult it can be to obtain funding to attend study days, the PEN Group committee, working collaboratively with our colleagues in industry, have designed the 2012 PEN Group Award to provide 4 fully funded places to the BAPEN Meeting December 2012 (including the PENG study days), allowing more dietitians to win and help to support your attendance at such an important meeting. WHAT is the PENG 2012 Award? This year's PEN Group Award focuses on submissions demonstrating use of dietetic outcome measures in nutritional support. To be considered for an Award we invite you to tell us about your best practice; show us what measures you use in demonstrating dietetic outcomes, outline how you communicate this to your fellow healthcare colleagues and demonstrate whether this has helped secure funding for any dietetic posts? Have you carried out audits which would be useful to share? Have you got a patient case study which illustrates the importance of dietetic outcome measures? Have you carried out any research in the area of dietetic outcomes in nutritional support? – If yes, we would like to hear from you... WHO can apply? The PEN Group of the BDA are looking for FOUR dietitians who are members of the *PEN Group and who can demonstrate measuring dietetic outcomes in nutritional support. We are looking for original contributions and sharing best practice to help us, as a Specialist Group, demonstrate and communicate the clinical benefits of dietetic intervention in the area of nutritional support. HOW can you apply? Simply write a short summary of your audit, or innovative practice or case study, to show how you have measured dietetic outcomes and integrated this into improving patient care. Your submission should be in the form of an abstract with title, authors, introduction/background, results, discussion, conclusion and references on one page of A4. Submit along with your contact details including your PEN GROUP NUMBER to the PENG education email address: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by August 31st 2012. All applications will be judged according to set criteria and the lucky winners will be notified by the end of September 2012. We will hold the Award ceremony at the main PEN Group meeting in December where the winners will have an opportunity to present their work. *Not a member of the PEN Group - Not a problem - go to the PEN Group website www.peng.org.uk for details on how to join or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it The papers, published ahead of the UN’s first high-level meeting on non-communicable disease in September, highlight the possible health and economic burdens of obesity if it’s left unchecked.
The research states that 15 million people are already obese in the UK and suggests this could rise by 11 million over the next two decades. The researchers estimate this will drive up spending on obesity related health problems by 25 per cent each year, costing the NHS an extra £2 billion annually.
Dr Mike Knapton, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation, said: “These predicted figures for obesity and heart disease in the UK are deeply worrying and show how urgently action is needed. And it’s not just the UK, obesity is now a global pandemic fuelling diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer. If we fail to tackle it now we’ll leave a legacy of people living poor quality lives and dying young.
“What we have to remember is that obesity is a ‘normal response’ to our environment. Culturally, we’re reliant on cars, our jobs and leisure activities are increasingly sedentary and we are faced with an abundance of easily available high-energy foods.
“Yet while we all have a role to play in tackling this problem, this research recognises that national governments are the most significant players - ahead of individuals, industry and civil society. In the UK, we need our Government to take the lead and make it easier to be healthier, such as by ensuring children are fully protected from junk food marketing on and off line.”
The studies are published in the Lancet.
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For more information please call the BHF press office on 020 7554 0164 or 07764 290381 (out of hours) or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Notes to editors:
Statement issued in response to a series of four studies published in the Lancet on Friday 26 August 2011.
“Obesity 1: The global obesity pandemic: shaped by global drivers and local environments” by Boyd A Swinburn et al. Lancet 2011; 378: 804–14
“Obesity 2: Health and economic burden of the projected obesity trends in the USA and the UK” by Y Claire Wang et al. Lancet 2011; 378: 815–25
“Obesity 3: Quantification of the effect of energy imbalance on Bodyweight” by Kevin D Hall et al. Lancet 2011; 378: 826–37
“Obesity 4: Changing the future of obesity: science, policy, and action” by Steven L Gortmaker et al. Lancet 2011; 378: 838–47
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