All Health & obesity articles – Page 3
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NewsTrillion calories cut since 2015, claim food and drink companies
The figures also show the average amount of sugar in consumer baskets fell by 13% in the same period
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Comment & Opinion
Lack of progress on sugar could set ministers and health experts on collision course
PHE’s 20% reduction of sugar in key sectors by 2020 now looks impossible
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News
PHE report shows industry struggling to hit sugar reduction targets
PHE’s latest report suggested its voluntary reduction programme stood virtually no chance of hitting its targets
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Letters
Funds from the soft drinks levy must be used to support children’s health
Reports that the Treasury has ‘pocketed taxes raised through the soft drinks sugar levy’ are very disappointing
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News
Thornton’s Budgens links with Juul to offer advice on switching from tobacco
The Belsize Park store operates the surgery-style service in a 7,000 sq ft cordoned-off area every Thursday afternoon
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News
Soft drinks sugar levy revenues swallowed up by Treasury review
Sugar levy was supposed to be ringfenced to support children’s health and to help tackle the obesity crisis in schools
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Comment & Opinion
The ‘sugary snack tax’ creates more questions than answers
Researchers believe a snack tax could lower the nation’s obesity levels more effectively than the soft drinks levy. But how exactly would such a tax work?
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Comment & Opinion
The soft drinks sugar tax has sold the industry - and consumers - a lie
Less than 25% of the projects paid out by the fund were for health and wellbeing projects
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Analysis & Features
Is the childhood obesity strategy turning into another omnishambles?
‘Sin taxes’ are under review., funds raised from the sugar levy have been siphoned off, while healthy eating in schools has been marginalised
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Analysis & Features
How can smaller retailers catch up on campylobacter?
Levels of contamination have fallen in supermarkets, but remain high at independents
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News
‘No guarantee’ sugar levy money will be spent on kids’ health
Children’s health campaigners are now engaged in a battle to win the funding for future years, with no ring-fencing in place
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Smoking rates in children fall but underage vaping remains steady, says report
A quarter of the nearly 14,000 children reported they had “ever used” e-cigarettes – the same as in 2016
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Birds Eye launches £6m advertising push in bid to ‘double’ veg consumption
It has been described by the firm as its ‘biggest’ frozen veg marketing drive to date
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Comment & Opinion
More health taxes won’t help consumers - but they will damage businesses
Consumers want to have confidence in what they’re drinking, says Steve Perez, founder and chair of drinks company Global Brands
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Comment & Opinion
The Doctor’s Kitchen: an informative look at how diet affects mental health
The way our diets have changed is having huge impacts on people’s health, according to Professor Felice Jacka
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Comment & Opinion
Picnic warning is a reminder industry must step up on salt reduction
Suppliers have cut sugar and satfat effectively: now to apply their expertise to salt
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News
Advertising Association urges rethink on new HFSS restrictions
Recommendations contained within the government’s childhood obesity strategy include banning HFSS commercials for both TV
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News
Campaign groups call for ‘calorie tax’ on high-fat foods
The organisations claim fat is a bigger contributor to calories in the diet than sugar
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Letters
Supermarkets can nudge shoppers to make better decisions
Supermarkets can deploy nudge techniques to influence what customers buy
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News
Defra kicks off anti-African swine fever border campaign
The campaign is aimed at anyone with the potential to introduce ASF to the UK
