Health insight and analysis – Page 70
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Comment & Opinion
Look to your laurels and dial down the sweetness
Fair play to Tesco. It may be in a pickle but it doesn’t lack ambition…
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Analysis & Features
Halal meat labelling: No quick fix in sight
Halal meat is in the headlines yet again. And there is one clear message: post-Horsegate, consumers want better information about meat.
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Analysis & Features
Tesco war on sugar now targets artificial sweeteners
Tesco is playing a major supporting role in making sugar public enemy number one…
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Comment & Opinion
Labour plans to micro-manage our diets - it won't work
The nanny state, like an old comic opera, is about to have a revival…
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Comment & Opinion
Food poverty alarm call
Last week, 170 public health doctors and specialists wrote an open letter on food poverty to the PM…
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Comment & Opinion
Gluten-free market bursting with potential says Mrs Crimble's
The UK gluten-free market is now worth over £175m and saw the highest number of launches of any food category last year…
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Analysis & Features
Drinks industry action under Responsibility Deal scrutinised
When wines and spirits have got stronger, how genuine is the drinks industry’s achievement in slashing 253 million units?…
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Analysis & Features
Pudology: Hitting the sweet spot in free-from desserts
Forced by health issues to change her diet and career, Lucy Wager developed free-from brand Pudology…
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Comment & Opinion
Traffic lights are still confusing consumers
It’s good to see more suppliers supporting the government’s attempts to improve food labelling…
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Comment & Opinion
Help shoppers decode confusing health claims
Back in 2001, a Food Advisory Committee report highlighted the confusion over food labelling…
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Comment & Opinion
The food industry must take more responsibility for kids' diets
This September, one in five children starting primary school in the UK will be officially overweight or obese…
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Analysis & Features
Is Tesco's food labelling policy completely nuts?
Retailer insists it warns only when there is risk of contamination…
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Comment & Opinion
With fizzy pop, sugar is only half the story
Fizzy lemonade is the perfect pop for a recession: cheap, sweet, inoffensive, and a good mixer too…
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Comment & Opinion
A changing mindset
The scourge of binge drinking facing the nation may be less of a crisis than the government and health campaigners had led us to believe.
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Comment & Opinion
There's too much alarm over sugar and sweeteners
The launch of health campaign group Action on Sugar in January sparked a debate around sugars in the diet…
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Comment & Opinion
Marketing food and drink to the unselfish consumer
Fat, salt, carbs and fibre are all nutritional elements that have been under the spotlight in the past decade…
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Comment & Opinion
Is there a sweet solution to the sugar problem?
The sugar lobby has lost its war to keep a lid on the health risks posed by its product…
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Comment & Opinion
Waitrose juice shake-up is a sign of the times
Almost overnight, fruit juice has become public health enemy number one…
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Comment & Opinion
Chantler review takes us back to the start
Where does the government’s tobacco policy stand after yesterday’s Chantler review into plain packs?
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Comment & Opinion
Vaping not aping
Does the e-cig industry need make some changes if it wants to convince politicians it is the bright new future?