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As Olive Press publisher Jon Clarke turns 50 we send him for check up Obesity is on the rise in Spain and will cost the health service billions if not tackled
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A HUGE 80% of men in Spain will be obese or overweight by the year 2030, a new study has warned. According to researchers from the Hospital del Mar Institute of Medical Research (IMIM), women will be less affected, although with a still concerning 55% set to be overweight or obese. The study, published by the Spanish Journal of Cardiology, estimates that in 2016 there were some 24 million overweight adults in Spain, 70% of men and 50% of women. That number is expected to increase by three million if nothing is done to counter the current trends. Obesity is already costing the Spanish health service €1.9 billion per year, but the current projections say this could exceed €3 billion over the next 11 years.
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The principal investigator of the study and director of the Program of Epidemiology and Public Health of the IMIM, Jaume Marrugat, said: “The latest figures illustrate, with little margin of error, the importance of initiating the maximum effort to reverse the growing epidemic of obesity in our society. “It is the only way to reduce the enormous social, health and economic costs that will emerge in the coming years.” Diseases related to being overweight include diabetes, cancer and heart disease.
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Desperate search for toddler enters fourth day as global experts rush to scene
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Total defeat BREXIT is in turmoil after the UK government has recorded one of its biggest parliamentary defeats in modern history. MPs, including 118 Tory rebels, voted against Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal by a majority of 230. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn immediately seized on the opportunity by tabling a vote of no confidence in the government. “This is a catastrophic defeat, the house has delivered its verdict on her deal. Delay and denial has reached the end of the line,” he said.
Parents say little Julen fell down the well on Sunday while playing with friend
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May admitted that a no confidence vote could happen as soon as next Wednesday, but said it did not show what deal MPs were willing to support. The embattled leader added that she would hold talks with the DUP and ‘senior parliamentarians from across the house to identify what will be required to secure support’. For the 300,000 UK citizens registered as living in Spain, it is still not clear what rights they will have after Brexit, despite assurances by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. “Their rights will be preserved whatever the scenario,” he said, in a bid to allay fears over a no-deal Brexit. May also said that clarity would be needed for EU citizens in the UK and British citizens in the EU. The government will now be forced to reveal a ‘plan B’ for Brexit within three working parliamentary days, expected to be on January 21.
Expert claims it is ‘almost impossible’ that boy is inside the well while builder claims he sealed it ‘weeks ago’ A-team who famously found Chilean miners last year flown in to help rescue effort Rescue operation predicts it will be another 24-48 hours before it reaches Julen Junta bosses say situation is the ‘first of its kind in the world’
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SCENE: Emergency services surround well opening while (right) policeman shows scale and (above) world’s media on site IT is every parent’s worst nightmare. Their little boy, just two years old, trapped in a dark, cramped space with no one able to reach him. At first his cries give family and friends hope, but they stopped hearing those a long time ago. Now the world is watching as hundreds of experts and emergency services attempt to reach little Julen Jimenez, who allegedly fell down the tiny well in Totalan in Malaga on Sunday. But despite a crack team of experts now on the scene, rescuers say it will be between 24 and 48 hours until they reach the boy. His parents were enjoying a day with the family and were cooking paella on
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a nearby farm when he fell into the 107-metre deep hole. A rescue operation was quickly sparked and the story has rapidly grabbed headlines around the world, while the distraught parents have been sleeping in a car next to the well ever since. “Where else could I be?” dad and tradesman Jose Rocio said, “Even here I am too far from him to bear. “My son is in there and I cannot reach him.” He added that he and his wife, Vicky
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