National Social Marketing Centre

• Calorie counts on menus and fast food: are they a weapon against obesity, or just more nannying from the Government?

• U.S. researchers estimate that an 18 percent tax on pizza and soda can push down U.S. adults' calorie intake enough to lower their average weight by 5 pounds (2 kg) per year.

• Awareness of breast, bowel and lung cancer to be increased in attempt to reduce 10,000 annual deaths caused by late cancer discovery.

• An event hosted online by the Open University's Institute for Social Marketing looks at how social marketing can influence our behaviour.

• People all over the country are being invited to body pop and foxtrot for free at thousands of dance classes as part of the new Let's Dance campaign.

• A new 6 million pound NHS campaign to reveal alcohol's hidden effects.

The 2nd World Non-Profit & Social Marketing Conference invites submissions of academic, practice, debate, case study and strategy papers.