| Welcome to the Winter 2021 edition of the quarterly Bariquins‘ newsletter |
In this newsletter: Gallery Page added to the Bariquins’ Website Barry & Benny’s Round-Up Merry Christmas Please scroll down for all the details. |
Gallery Page added to the Bariquins’ Website We know that Christmas is nearly upon us, so we’ll keep this newsletter brief. (We all know that you’ve got cheese and wine working meetings to attend!)  We have recently added an image gallery page to our website. There’s just short of a hundred images for you to view at https://bariquins.com/image-gallery/ Images include Bariquin mannequins used in extrication training and moving and handling practice, so please have a look. If you’ve got any images of Bariquins’ mannequins being used that you have taken during the course of your training exercises and you’d like them to appear in our gallery, please email them to sales@bariquins.com |
Barry & Benny’s Round-Up In this regular section, we look at news and other pieces of interest that have occurred since the last newsletter. ———————————————– Headlines, reports and articles that have caught our attention recently are listed here, starting around the world: Research in America has found that there is a link between obesity and low muscle mass which increases risk of death from major trauma. More details can be found here. More from the USA where ambulance workers’ backs are being injured whilst moving and handling patients living with obesity. Read more about this here. As we are about to face the Omicron Covid wave, here’s plenty on the links between obesity and Covid; here, here, here, here, here and here. There were more articles that we found, but you get the picture… Obesity continues to affect countries around the world, so it’s not going away any time soon. Obesity is costing Saudi Arabia $19 billion per year, details can be found here.68 million Indonesians are living with obesity due to an unhealthy diet, as reported here.Almost 1 in every 3 College-Age Americans are now living with obesity; see here.The prevalence of obesity among adults of 18 years and above has increased in the Arab region, from 19% in 2000 to 29% in 2016. Details are here.And in the UK, childhood obesity is ‘one of the greatest public health challenges’. See more here.The NHS is to set up 15 special clinics in England for children living with severe obesity, as reported here.And there is concern over the ‘alarming’ rise in obesity in primary school children. More details are here.———————————————– |
