All Obesity articles
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Comment & OpinionFibre fix: why retail’s GLP‑1 obsession misses the real picture
In focusing on products designed for GLP-1 users, there’s a danger we overlook a much bigger, more fundamental issue: we all need to eat more fibre, says Jon Walsh, founder and CEO of Bio&Me
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Comment & OpinionNew UK food health scores penalise consumers and undermine industry
The government’s updated nutrient profiling model will render all the previous reformulation effort worthless, says Craig Ralph, client services director at WeAreSPQR
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Comment & OpinionNew nutrient profiling model is at odds with scientific sentiment
Slavishly focusing on further reductions in fat, salt and sugar is at odds with the latest scientific consensus, consumer sentiment and retailer actions
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Comment & OpinionThe new nutrient profiling model could rewrite UK food rules
A technical change in the NPM could substantially reduce unhealthy food marketing to children, says Dr Alison Tedstone, former chief nutritionist at Public Health England and the DHSC, and expert advisor to the Obesity Health Alliance
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Comment & OpinionGLP-1s will reshape food systems - but it’s all guesswork
No one wants to talk about the huge limitations in our knowledge of how GLP-1 agonists are likely to impact food choice, says Anthony Warner, development chef at New Food Innovation
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Comment & OpinionWill Streeting’s war on sugar transform unhealthy food?
The DHSC’s plans to push ahead with a new, tougher version of the nutrient profiling model could put Streeting on a collision course with Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves
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Comment & OpinionThe Lunch They Deserve: powerful film highlights kids’ diet deficiencies
The government doesn’t monitor what’s happening in the school food system, which, says narrator Emma Thompson, ‘means no one is officially checking the quality of the meals served’
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Comment & OpinionRFK’s protein obsession is a food strategy the UK can do without
New meat-heavy diet guidelines in the US serve as a clear warning for the need to follow the scientific evidence, says food and nutrition policy expert Ali Morpeth
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Comment & OpinionMatcha’s gone mainstream: fmcg trends that will define 2026
says Adrian Teixeira-Porrescas, senior art director at Chuck Studios
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NewsA fifth of Brits taking part in Veganuary
Twenty-four to 34-year-olds were most likely to take part in Veganuary
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Analysis & FeaturesWhat should a GLP-1 range look like and which is best?
Retailer offerings trumpet a variety of claims about protein, fat and fibre levels, while some seem to simply be smaller portions
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Comment & OpinionUK food must prepare for the brewing UPF litigation storm
The conditions for UK litigation are aligning with frightening precision, says Mike Coppen-Gardner of WeAreSPQR
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Comment & OpinionThe government’s new health proposals are hard to swallow
The proposals would be some of the biggest and most controversial moves to hit the industry on health in the past decade
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Comment & OpinionHow can the health agenda drive good growth for food & drink?
With 11% of UK adults open to trying weight-loss injections, we’re looking at a potential market of over six million people, says Hannah Daley, IGD’s head of health and sustainable diets
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Comment & OpinionTargeting food deserts could help solve the junk food feedback loop
It’s never been a secret that children in the most deprived neighbourhoods are twice as likely to be obese as those in the wealthiest ones
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NewsHealthy food pilots planned for deprived areas to tackle obesity
A series of interventions is being lined up by government in a bid to focus the food strategy on areas with the highest levels of obesity
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NewsIceland Foods expands weight-loss range to cater to GLP-1 users
The 38 new weight-loss lines include ready meals, breakfast omelettes and filled pastas, aimed at GLP-1 users
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NewsAsda jumps on GLP-1 bandwagon with high-protein ‘power pots’
Morrisons, M&S and Co-op have recently added ready meals for weight-loss drug users
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NewsJunk food ban must be extended, health groups tell ministers
The Obesity Health Alliance has written an open letter to health secretary Wes Streeting and culture secretary Lisa Nandy, urging them to remove “loopholes” that allow brands with HFSS products to continue advertising
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Analysis & FeaturesThe Grocer’s unofficial guide to the new HFSS marketing rules
It’s a watershed moment for HFSS food and drink advertising, with new rules now in place to restrict the marketing of key foodstuffs. But what do they mean in practice? And how will retailers and manufacturers approach the restrictions? Here’s everything you ever needed to know but didn’t dare to ask.