Health insight and analysis – Page 53
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Comment & OpinionCheap junk food will only worsen the health woes of Britain's poorest
You can’t solve poverty with bad food, says Joanna Blythman
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Comment & OpinionThe Fast Fix: can ultra low-calorie diets tackle diabetes?
Could an ultra low-calorie diet reverse Type 2 diabetes and save the NHS billions of pounds?
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Comment & OpinionPM must take decisive action on HFSS products
While we welcome PHE’s first assessment of progress on the government’s sugar reduction programme, much more must be done…
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Comment & OpinionShots fired in row over ‘junk food’ promotions ban
In an outspoken attack, Ian Wright described the proposals as “government at its worst”
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Comment & OpinionThe ‘guilt lane’ ban idea is back: it won’t bother retailers
Is the renewed focus on guilt lanes a sign that ministers may yet back away from pressing the nuclear button on promotions across every part of the store?
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Analysis & FeaturesConvenience stores: A desert for healthy options?
No longer content to be an oasis of fags and booze, c-stores are upping their game in the health stakes. But there is plenty of work left to do
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Comment & OpinionA long battle looms over food & drink health plans
The honeymoon between PHE and the food and drink industry may have to be put on hold
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Comment & OpinionChildhood Obesity Plan Mark 2: things are about to get seriously complicated
If Theresa May thought this was an easy policy to pluck off the shelf to win much needed domestic credibility, she may have to think again
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Comment & OpinionReformulation drive is off to a reasonable start
With a third of primary school children and two thirds of adults overweight or obese, obesity is an issue that’s population
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Comment & OpinionSugar shaming is off the mark – the out-of-home ‘black hole’ is the real scandal
As the report today sadly confirms, it is all going on unmeasured and unpoliced, while companies who have been responding find their names dragged through the mud, and it makes a mockery of the reformulation programme
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Comment & OpinionUK legislation is lagging behind when it comes to transfats
The WHO estimates transfat consumption is responsible for more than 500,000 deaths from cardiovascular disease every year, so why isn’t the food industry – and the government – taking more action?
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Comment & OpinionFat is bad after all, says SACN. So will we see a reformulation drive?
Suppliers may have found it impossible to make a stand against the tide of medical advice on sugar, but with saturated fats there is more division among experts
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Comment & OpinionCan Peas Please’s generic veg campaign win funding? And will it work?
The timing of the launch could not be more opportune after Defra released its Family Food Survey, which found consumers were purchasing fewer fresh green vegetables in 2016/17 than in 2013
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Comment & OpinionCatching up with the low-sugar zeitgeist
We tend to forget the role of high street coffee chains in fuelling our monstrous sugar addiction
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Comment & OpinionBritain's Fat Fight: Hugh F-W kicks off his obesity campaign
Britain’s Fat Fight with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall got off to a sensationalist start
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Analysis & FeaturesSoft drinks: will new recipes have the halo effect?
Sugar-laden drinks are suddenly public enemy number one. So can healthy, natural recipes rejuvenate the soft drinks industry?
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Comment & OpinionData will be crucial for lower-calorie reformulation
Fighting Britain’s obesity crisis moved up a gear this month when Public Health England’s sugar tax came into force
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Analysis & FeaturesCan Twinings' cold water infusion take it beyond tea?
Twinings emerged as the focal point for coffee aficionados last weekend
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Analysis & FeaturesEight innovative new crisp alternatives
Consumers are choosing lighter options when it comes to savoury snacking, here’s our pick of the best new crisp alternatives
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Comment & OpinionFood labelling: doing what it says on the tin
I have been drawn to food labelling issues over the last few weeks due to a number of unconnected events