The TBL Quarterly

Novo Nordisk's TBL Quarterly tells the actions, challenges and opportunities of conducting a sustainable business. Each quarterly issue offers articles, photos, videos and infographics that demonstrate how responsibility supports long-term value creation. Click here to learn more about the TBL Quarterly

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Health & Healthcare

Healthy Cities Need a Low Carbon Diet
Why might cities be the best place for social change to happen? Who better to answer this than Mark Watts, Executive Director of C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40). C40 connects more than 80 of the world’s largest cities, where change can have impact and scalability. We talked to Mark about the connection between climate change and type 2 diabetes.

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Bringing the Doctor to the Doorstep in Mexico City
Increased urbanisation has fuelled the consumption of processed food and beverage, rich in sugar, fat and sodium.[3] Simultaneously, city dwellers have experienced a decrease in the time available for food preparation and physical exercise, which drives the rapid increase in levels of overweight, obesity and related diseases in Mexico City.

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Fast Food has Replaced Everything
Cities influence how we live, travel and eat, all of which have an impact on our health. Novo Nordisk’s latest issue of TBL Quarterly takes you to the city streets to show the challenges and opportunities to improve the health of urbanites living with type 2 diabetes. ​

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Health in the City: Why Urbanisation can be a Risk Factor
Today, Novo Nordisk published a new issue of the company’s sustainability magazine, TBL Quarterly. The latest instalment – The Urban Issue – presents recent research on urban health and some of the actions being taken to prevent chronic disease and improve treatment.

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Diabetes in Children: A Family Matter

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A Tale of Two Cities
The form and composition of cities – their size, density, diversity and complexity – provide tremendous opportunity for understanding the drivers behind type 2 diabetes, thus making cities a focal point for developing interventions that can break the rising curve of diabetes. Getting to these solutions requires an understanding of how societal factors and individual behaviour associated with urban living influence an individual’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

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Diabetes Care Close to the Heart

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Using Your Legs in a City Designed for Cars
When talking about global development, we tend to think of developing world challenges such as poverty reduction, HIV/AIDS and access to clean water. However, with the adoption of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sustainable development has become a universal concern that must be addressed in both low- and high income countries. In the US, the city of Houston illustrates the health challenges of modern urban life.

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Why Sustainable Development and Pregnancy Go Hand in Hand
Here is a statistic that may not shock as many people as it should.

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The Need for Healthy Goals
As the UN General Assembly gets underway, Charlotte Ersbøll, corporate vice president in Novo Nordisk, reflects on the post-2015 agenda and why health must remain at the heart of sustainable development.

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