8 NEWS THE COPENHAGEN POST | CPHPOST.DK 14 - 20 November 2014 Kids’ cancer rates chopped Tackling obesity The original Europeans DNA liquid tests COLOURBOX COLOURBOX COLOURBOX COLOURBOX COLOURBOX It’s good news for the children Collaboration praised for joint effort across the Øresund MAGNUS RASMUSSEN A N INCREASE in the number of children surviving cancer in Denmark and Sweden – from 50 to 80 percent – has been attributed to a collaborative effort between Skåne Universitetssjukhus in Lund and Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen and (SOHO). In recognition of the 30year partnership, Region Hovedstaden and Region Skåne has awarded SOHO the Øresund Award. However, can- cer remains the biggest killer of children, accounting for 22 percent of all deaths. No link to stress MEANWHILE, the Danish Cancer Society (DCS) has quashed the myth that stress leads to cancer. Previous research that focused on stressful life-events like divorce or the loss of a job had been inconclusive. But a study of the records of 1,300 Danish resistance fighters who survived imprisonment in German concentration camps during World War II revealed no correlation with increased cases of cancer. No more fast food day-outs The findings are significant The DNA on your swag DESPITE the number of overweight Danish children and young people more than tripling over the past 30 years, it has been almost impossible to get the children to permanently lose weight. Until now. Jens-Christian Holm, a paediatrician from Holbæk Hospital, has treated 1,900 children and young people aged 3-22, of which 80 percent have lost weight and retained a normal weight after treatment. “We recognise, research and treat child obesity as a chronic illness,” Holm told Metroxpress. (CW) BY MAPPING the genome of the skeleton of a 37,000-yearold man found in Kostinski in Russia, Danish researchers – in co-operation with an international research team – have found that current Scandinavians are the most closely-related of all Europeans to the first people to live on the continent. “Some of the earliest people in Europe were actually our forefathers,” Eske Willerslev, the head of the Center for Geogenetics at the University of Copenhagen and co-author of the research, told Videskab.dk. (CW) A NEW METHOD of marking valuables as a means of theft protection has been used in Denmark for the first time. Special liquid containing DNA that is applied to valuables will make it much easier for police to reunite stolen goods with their owners. If a stolen item is found, police can compare the marking on the item with that of an international database. A bottle of liquid costs 700 kroner. It dries out when applied to an item and becomes invisible to the naked eye. (MR) READ THE REST OF THESE STORIES AT CPHPOST.DK ONLINE THIS WEEK FULL STORIES AT CPHPOST.DK Stone Age footprints Bream invasion All hail farty kale Cry wolf map Help for eco farmers ARCHAEOLOGISTS in Lolland-Falster have discovered 5,000-year-old footprints made by Stone Age fishermen. The team, who made the discovery at an excavation site in connection with the digging of the Femern Bælt Tunnel, claim the prints were preserved by sand left behind by a flood. THE ZOOLOGICAL Museum has warned that increasing numbers of the Mediterranean seawater fish bream, a tasty addition to any menu, threaten the existence of some native fish species. The bream tends to eat shellfish like crayfish and mussels, which it crushes with its strong teeth. A PROMINENT food historian has hailed farmer’s favourite curly kale – a leafy vegetable that smells of farts – as Denmark’s “most important historical cabbage variety”. Asmus Gamdrup Jensen told DR that the “rather gooey” kale soup will become more commonplace on Danish tables in the future. IN COLLABORATION with the city university, the Museum of Natural History in Aarhus has compiled a map showing the documented movements of wolves across Jutland during 2014. Consisting of mostly saliva samples and photo graphic evidence, the map officially confirms the return of the animal to Denmark. DAN JØRGENSEN, the food and agriculture minister, has earmarked a further 148 million kroner to help farmers struggling due to Russian sanctions. The funding, which now stands at 348 million, helps farmers to build environmentally-friendly stables – providing they invest themselves. THAT THEATRE COMPANY PROUDLY PRESENTS IAN BURNS SIMON KENT E2 ADD 212MM X 72MM