Latest health insight and analysis – Page 15
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Comment and Opinion
Why underage disposable vaping data is no throwaway issue
A couple of underage kids reacting badly to dodgy vapes could spark rash government intervention
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Comment and Opinion
An open letter to Kellogg’s on its failed challenge to derail the Nutrient Profiling Model
Kellogg’s: you may be right about the NPM, but the health of our population is more important than the health of your profits, says Melissa Sharp, co-founder of Modern Baker
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Analysis and Features
After Kellogg’s court defeat, are HFSS restrictions inevitable?
The High Court has given Kellogg’s legal challenge ‘short shrift’
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Comment and Opinion
Cabinet chaos leaves the food world in an even more unstable position
It’s difficult to see how a government now focused on simply making it through each day is suddenly going to offer any strategic direction
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Comment and Opinion
Is Kate Moss really the best partner for Diet Coke in the ‘body positive’ era?
The model has previously faced backlash for saying “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”
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Comment and Opinion
Kellogg’s High Court decision marks the end for industry legal challenges to HFSS rules
Kellogg’s has said it respects the decision and does not intend to appeal
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Comment and Opinion
US chaos shows why UK was right to legislate early on vaping
The US’s seemingly tough stance on vaping stands in stark contrast to the UK’s
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Comment and Opinion
Why we should be using social media to inform NPD
There is a treasure trove of opinion on social media that could take much of the sting out of innovation, says Mike Tapp, data director at Capture Intelligence
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Comment and Opinion
Mindset, marketing, mission: how to rethink brands for future HFSS restrictions
The HFSS changes should be viewed as an opportunity to make businesses healthier, says Chris Morley, MD, Kantar Worldpanel UK, Ireland & US
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Comment and Opinion
Our unhealthy, unsustainable food system needs intervention. Where is government?
Surely even the most die-hard free marketeers can’t believe we’ll tackle carbon emissions or childhood obesity without government intervention, says Dan Crossley, executive director at the Food Ethics Council
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Webinar
WATCH: How will HFSS affect store design?
Catch up on our webinar on how retailers are changing store layouts and product placements ahead of the HFSS restrictions coming this October – and what this means for shoppers, brands and sales.
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Comment and Opinion
Is Mindful Chef’s move to offer dieting advice savvy or folly?
Mindful Chef’s customers are a demographic that can weather rising costs and inflation better than most
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Comment and Opinion
National Food Strategy: government has failed us with its lack of commitment on health
This week’s government response echoes only a few of the proposals made by Henry Dimbleby, says Anna Taylor, executive director of The Food Foundation
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Comment and Opinion
Mondelez’s Clif Bar move shows UK confectioners are taking nutrition seriously
As HFSS clampdowns loom, Mars and Ferrero have also made moves into healthy snacking
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Comment and Opinion
Why Philip Morris really does want to kill the cigarette (and not humans)
PMI reckons it has ‘made the biggest step to improve public health globally’
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Analysis and Features
What does government’s NFS response mean for future food policy?
It’s not so much a white paper as simply ‘a list of policies’. But the government response to Henry Dimbleby’s work sets out a direction of travel
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Comment and Opinion
National Food Strategy flop was always on the cards, but Dimbleby isn’t done yet
It’s easy to envisage Dimbleby’s proposals being revived in more favourable economic conditions
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Comment and Opinion
Gene-edited foods shouldn’t be enabled in the UK while risks are ignored
Government is twisting science and mangling the concept of ‘natural’ to push through gene-edited foods, says Joanna Blythman, food journalist and author of Swallow This
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Comment and Opinion
Brands, government and consumers can’t rely on unhealthy food
Most people are looking to retailers to help them make healthier choices, not push HFSS foods at the end of every aisle
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The Big Interview
‘Our biggest risk to health is inertia’: how Kieron Boyle is driving social change in food
Boyle chairs a multitrillion-dollar investor coalition. He’s driving the food industry to take action on obesity levels and health inequalities