Health insight and analysis – Page 87
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Comment & Opinion
Happy chemicals and super-powered staples
How refreshing - an investigation into what’s good about the food we eat rather than more lazy “it’s all carcinogenic…
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Comment & Opinion
A healthy way to start your day?
Cereals have for too long embodied wider problems that make it difficult to eat healthily: marketed as healthy…
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Analysis & FeaturesCrunch time: what now as PepsiCo loses fizz?
What lessons can the struggling PepsiCo US learn from its more successful UK arm? Is ditching the focus on health the key to reversing its fortunes?
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InterviewsGreater Sporting Knowhow
Peter Harding has a secret weapon. The UK boss of GlaxoSmithKline tells us how he’s warming up for a “year of sport”.
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Comment & Opinion
At last, some palatable diet advice
Slimmers blame themselves for lacking willpower and self-control, but might the explanation for failure lie elsewhere?
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Analysis & FeaturesFood-borne diseases: the danger within
We’ve made huge progress in understanding food-borne diseases, but the journey is far from over.
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Comment & Opinion
My festive wish-list for how government could help suppliers
What I want for Christmas is for Whitehall to draw up a coherent obesity strategy
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Comment & Opinion
Ditching analysis will fix nothing
Councils need detailed scrutiny of the obesity problem to help tackle it
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Comment & Opinion
Fixing the obesity epidemic is as hard as fixing the euro
The coalition wants to nudge, but the nannying instinct is still strong, as reaction to the Department of Health’s proposals last week proved.
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Comment & Opinion
Chewing the fat
When Hungary launched a fat tax in the summer it was greeted as much as a chance for witty headlines as a serious proposition for us Brits.
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Comment & Opinion
Saturated fats are not the enemy
Our war on obesity should instead tackle the real culprits, sugar and carbs, says Joanna Blythman
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Analysis & FeaturesDesmond takes a gamble on rivalling the National Lottery
Express Newspapers tycoon Richard Desmond plans to tackle Britain’s “health inequalities” with his new lottery. How sound a venture is it, asks Elinor Zuke
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Comment & Opinion
The responsibility Delia
There are all kinds of reasons not to like celebrity chefs: envy of their boyish good looks, say, the fact they never have to wash up, or their ability to do things with a courgette and a peeler than would make grown men weep.
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Comment & Opinion
Third Party: Extra labelling is not the way to fight obesity
Making food suppliers add information to labels will hike costs – and won’t stop people buying cake, says Catherine Feechan
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Comment & Opinion
Low energy-dense foods like fruit and veg are not cheap and often less convenient
Innovation takes many forms. For tobacco manufacturers, current NPD feels almost like a last hurrah before the shutters come down.
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ProfilesSpotlight: A healthy formula
As health concerns mount, the race to reformulate our food is on. So what will tomorrow’s products look like? Julia Glotz visits Leatherhead Food Research to find out
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Comment & Opinion
A healthier future will be better for business
Tackling obesity will require ambitious solutions that stimulate rather than stifle the bottom line, says Richard Evans
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Comment & OpinionFallout of E.coli tragedy could devastate fresh produce industry
Next week is Food Safety Week. But if anyone was complacent, before this week’s tragic E.coli outbreak in Hamburg, Germany…
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Comment & Opinion
Danes play the blame game
Rarely a day goes by without us getting sent research of variable reliability purporting to shed some light on what’s going on in consumers’ heads.
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Comment & Opinion
Gluten-free goes super-Novak
On Saturday The Times reported with some gusto that food intolerances were a figment of our oversensitive and pampered western imaginations.