Health insight and analysis – Page 52
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Comment & OpinionDéjà vu? Unrealistic targets in the UK fight on obesity
No less than 145 voluntary targets looming over different sectors hark back to the Responsibility Deal
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Comment & OpinionHard evidence is much needed in energy drinks policy
A new report found little evidence energy drinks are more damaging to normal children than tea, coffee or cola
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Comment & OpinionMeat alternatives must shed the salt or shed their ‘health halo’
It didn’t come as a huge surprise to find out some ‘meat alternatives’ aren’t quite as healthy as they’d like to make out
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Analysis & FeaturesWar on obesity: is food and drink being swamped by targets?
Patience is wearing thin with a ‘tsunami’ of government plans
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Analysis & FeaturesHow serious is food and drink's allergy problem?
As Pret a Manger is linked to a second allergy death, can it get itself off the hook by blaming a supplier? And what are the wider implications?
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Comment & OpinionBeware food safety risks when cutting salt, sugar and plastics
Salt and sugar have been used as food preservatives for hundreds of years and there are microbiological risks of reducing them in food, says Professor Chris Elliott
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Analysis & FeaturesPlain stupid: kids' yoghurts unfairly treated over sugar?
Under proposed changes yoghurts could be classed as ‘junk food’
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Category ReportThe halo effect: chocolate category report 2018
Ethical chocolate is suddenly all the rage. But can virtuous brands convince consumers their wares are worth a premium?
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Comment & OpinionAllergy death shows labelling legislation is falling short
More must be done to protect people suffering with severe food allergies when they eat out
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Comment & OpinionTom Watson's weight loss proves official healthy diet advice is useless
The deputy Labour leader’s success with the Pioppi diet shows the government’s Eatwell plate has come to the end of the road, says Joanna Blythman
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Analysis & FeaturesIs Jamie Oliver's Tesco role any more than an ad coup?
It may seem a bitter medicine to some but Dave Lewis thinks an Oliver-backed health initiative is preferable to DH intervention
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Comment & OpinionJamie Oliver’s Tesco deal is a curate’s egg
It’s not about the moolah. He’s not the new face of Tesco. It’s not even an ad campaign. So what exactly is this tieup?
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Comment & OpinionPlans for a HFSS promo ban will have enormous implications
The wording of the plan so far has been incredibly vague
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Comment & OpinionA ban on the sale of energy drinks to children is late… but welcome
So, it turns out whopping amounts of caffeine are potentially harmful to kids. Who knew?!
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Comment & OpinionSensationalist reporting about the ‘dangers of red meat’ must stop now
It’s not the first time we’ve heard calls for health warnings on red meat, but it’s surprising to hear it from someone advising government
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Comment & OpinionWill consumers abandon gum if they know it contains plastic?
If Iceland is to believed, 85% of people don’t know gum is made from synthetic polymers and plasticisers
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InterviewsPaul Lindley on a capital idea to fight obesity
With London’s devolved powers, Lindley believes the capital is the best place to start our national battle against the bulge
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Analysis & FeaturesFive celebrity-spun functional ingredient trends
A celebrity stamp of approval hasn’t lost its shine in 2018
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Comment & OpinionThe Food Programme debates the efficacy of the Eatwell Guide
Government healthy eating guidelines are a hot topic following the launch of chapter two of the Childhood Obesity Plan
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Comment & OpinionDonna looks out for the kids and campaigns against obesity
I got as far as Euston before Clarke the Frexit driver pointed out that HFSS was nothing to do with jolly fast choo-choos