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Manchester has been labelled as Britain’s “most toxic city” in the battle against obesity with the highest number of fast-food outlets per population, according to a survey.

Jessica Simpson has confirmed she is pregnant again.

Jessica Simpson is pregnant again, it has been announced.

Follow the example of these five adventurers and transform your life in the new year, says Sharon Ní Chonchúir

THE Irish arm of US food giant Heinz recorded a 4% drop in pre-tax profits last year to £12.2m (€14.2m), new figures show.

Chemist chain Boots is targeting the weight loss market.

Chemist chain Boots is gearing up for a major push into the weight loss market as it battles for high street customers, it was reported today.

OVERWEIGHT patients told by their doctors to go to Weight Watchers lose around twice as much weight as people receiving standard weight loss care over 12 months, according to a study.

THE rumours of money troubles which have dogged the Duchess of York since her divorce from Prince Andrew have gathered pace recently.

PROFITS at Irish food company Greencore were hit by a fall in the value of sterling, but the company remains on track to expand in the US.

Finsbury Foods today grabbed a bigger slice of the diet cake market following the acquisition of Weight Watchers cake supplier Anthony Alan Foods.

SAVOURY meals lick vanilla ice cream in terms of sugar content, a leading consumer organisation discovered.

The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, becomes the American Cancer Society’s Mother of the Year this week.

Foods giant Heinz was today said to be reconsidering the sale of its European frozen foods business after failing to attract the price it wanted.

CURVES are in and skinny minnies out, according to a survey of British women.

FOOD giant Heinz is to sell its frozen and chilled food business, which employs 2,300 workers in Ireland and Britain.

ALMOST 70 food products have been recalled from the Irish market following an alert by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) about an illegal red food dye which has cancer-causing properties.

AFTER losing almost half her body weight, Jan Bradley felt like she was walking on air in Dublin yesterday when she won the Flora Light Weight Watchers Member of the Year Award.

IF a happy home is a key to success, watch out this week for the golfing trio of Darren Clarke, Lee Westwood and Paul McGinley as they battle for the 84th US PGA Championship at Hazeltine some twenty miles south of the twin cities of Minneapolis-St Paul, Minnesota.