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Professor Philip James obituary: researcher highlighted cost of obesity

James said obesity costs the world two trillion dollars a year, “equivalent to the cost of all warfare and terrorism”.

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Philip James, obesity scientist who popularised the Body Mass Index and waged war on junk food – obituary

Professor Philip James, who has died aged 85, was a pioneer of research into nutrition and in particular obesity, an issue on which he rang increasingly desperate alarm bells while the problem, as he put it, became a tidal wave.

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60 years of livestock markets and how they've changed

60 years of livestock markets and how they’ve changed >More in Chichester Cattle Market in 1960 © Shutterstock/John Curtis Taking Stock looks over the seismic changes in the livestock sector through the lens of the UK’s livestock marts over the past 60 years. Over the past 60 years, there are two common threads in the evolution of markets: professionalisation and consolidation. More that 500 markets have ceased trading and the meat and food sector is controlled by far fewer players. As farms have become bigger and have had to comply with more red tape, so too have many markets. Hygiene, biosecurity and animal welfare have all influenced market design, but technology has probably had the biggest impact.

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