All Health articles – Page 173
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NewsWheyhey ice cream for athletes rolls out
A ‘healthy’ ice cream brand that claims Olympic athletes among its users has secured its first nationwide listing.
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NewsFood hygiene scheme to be made mandatory
Retailers have accused government food safety experts of making a mockery of promises to slash red tape…
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NewsTesco refreshes yoghurt drinks with multivitamin-led overhaul
Tesco has boosted its yoghurt drinks range with a raft of new variants, including a first-to-market multivitamin dairy drink.
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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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NewsDoctors demand 20% ‘fat tax’ on unhealthy food
A tax of at least 20% should be slapped on ’unhealthy’ food and drinks to help tackle obesity, researchers claimed today.
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NewsMPs demand new strategy for ‘damaging’ food system
The government urgently needs to come up with a joined-up food strategy across health, environment and education…
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NewsDepots struggle with 'crazy' tobacco rules
Wholesalers have branded the tobacco display ban at their depots “a right pain in the a***”.
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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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NewsUniversal health labelling scheme back on the cards
The government is to re-ignite one of the trade’s biggest controversies by urging retailers and manufacturers to ditch rival schemes and adopt a common system for nutrition labelling.
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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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NewsMorrisons revamps its own label health range
Morrisons is set to launch the first products in a new 300-strong healthy eating own label range next week.
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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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NewsDairy UK to sign up for calorie-cut pledge
Dairy UK is preparing to sign up to the Department of Health’s pledge…
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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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NewsLansley: 'Responsibility Deal is achieving big results'
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has launched an impassioned defence of the Responsibility Deal this week, singling out the food and drink industry for praise in helping tackle obesity and binge drinking.