article_snippet: a new report by MPs on the Commons’ Health Select Committee has found (file picture, posed by model)
article_snippet: Dr Sarah Wollaston, chairman of the Commons’ Health Select Committee, said: ‘It is unacceptable that this gender gap has been ignored for so long.
article_snippet: One woman interviewed by the Commons’ Health Select Committee was told by One woman interviewed by the committee male GP One woman interviewed by the committee was too fat to do the London Marathon even though One woman interviewed by the committee had run 18 miles the week previously.
article_snippet: Julie Creffield, a campaigner who encourages women to exercise, said One woman interviewed by the committee was determined to ‘prove
article_snippet: One woman interviewed by the committee wrong’ and finished the event in 2013.
article_snippet: One woman interviewed by the committee told the MPs:
article_snippet: The committee – which is also investigating obesity – spoke to an expert who accused hospitals that sell fast-food on their premises as being guilty of ‘negligence.
article_snippet: ’ Professor Theresa Marteau, of the Department of Public Health at Cambridge University, criticised Guy’s in London, where there is a McDonald’s and Addenbrooke’s in Cambridge, which houses a Burger King.
article_snippet: One woman interviewed by the committee said: ‘It is at best anomalous and at worst negligent that NHS properties continue to serve foods high in sugar, salt and fat.