Health insight and analysis – Page 86
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Comment & Opinion
How Richard Nixon made us fat
Admit it, you thought The Men Who Made Us Fat was going to be a hatchet job too.
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Analysis & FeaturesHow the industry's calories reduction pledges weigh up
Retailers and suppliers are certainly talking a good talk. But can they really walk five billion calories off Britain’s daily diet?
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Comment & Opinion
Is the economy shaky or flaky?
In two weeks, world governments will meet in Rio de Janeiro to discuss sustainable development…
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Analysis & FeaturesOrange juice hangs on despite Brazil fungicide fear
Orange juice was one of 2012’s first commodity scare stories - prices skyrocketed 20% overnight after a controversial fungicide was found…
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Comment & Opinion
We should market healthy products to kids
This year saw many of Europe’s big food and snack companies sign an enhanced ‘pledge’ to promise not…
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Comment & Opinion
The illusion of progress
American President Calvin Coolidge was once asked how he managed to remain healthy in a job that had…
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Comment & Opinion
How can we rid chicken of campylobacter?
Recent Which? research found that 18% of supermarket chickens were contaminated with campylobacter and 17% with listeria.
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InterviewsMars boss Fiona Dawson in the hot seat
This week’s guest editor, Mars Chocolate UK president Fiona Dawson, on Responsibility, reformulation… and Roy Hodgson.
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ProfilesDiet Chef targets European success
Kevin Dorren has a lot to thank Denise Van Outen for. Last June she tweeted about the “amazing results”…
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Comment & Opinion
Comparing food or fighter jets? I know which is more useful for kids
It’s five years since The Grocer first ‘discovered’ EdStat, a children’s card game, based on Top Trumps, in which nutritional data about leading food and drink products is ‘trumped’.
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Analysis & FeaturesCan Lansley rub out tobacco trade... and at what price?
Andrew Lansley wants to stub out the trade, but suppliers remain determined to push to push the case against enforcing generic packaging.
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Comment & Opinion
Busybodies and disapprovers are on the march
April is the cruellest month, wrote TS Eliot. In political terms, the present one is also turning out to be the most perverse.
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InterviewsThe £14bn breakfast club
So PepsiCo is turning its back on the health agenda, is it? Hardly, says David Murray, general manager of Quaker and Tropicana. Indeed, health is key to its plans.
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Comment & Opinion
There's so much more we can do to cut salt
As a country we’re very patriotic, championing national days of celebration for everything from our apples to our chips.
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Comment & Opinion
A failure in Responsibility
A year after the government launched its Public Health Responsibility Deal for England, the bid to “tackle health inequalities” has so far proved inadequate.
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Comment & Opinion
Plain packaging is final nail for local stores
Wouldn’t it be more sensible to assess the impact of the display ban before considering further tobacco restrictions?
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ProfilesRocker turned 'dadpreneur'
Former musician and brand consultant Dan Brown was so fed up with the lack of healthy frozen treats for kids, he launched his own.
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Comment & Opinion
Three minutes to change your life
If your dieting resolve has weakened of late, have no fear. As Obese: A Year to Save My Life ended, so Supersize vs Superskinny began.
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Comment & Opinion
Beware the likely mission creep
Whatever you think of tobacco, it’s important to remember that it is still perfectly legal to sell it.
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Comment & Opinion
Demonising fags and booze I get... but cheese?
If you went to watch a Green Bay Packers game in Wisconsin late last year, you would have seen a curious public advertisement.