All Obesity articles – Page 42
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Comment & OpinionHow simpler guidelines on calorie reduction can help industry take positive action
PHE has listened to concerns that there is not a level playing field with the eating out, takeaway and delivery sector, says Dr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist, PHE
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Comment & OpinionBetter education on vaping is needed to keep smoking in decline
There is a growing level of apathy towards the dangers of smoking, says Dan Thomson, UK & Ireland MD at Juul Labs
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Comment & OpinionReformulation does not solve the problem of processed convenience foods
Dietary advice should warn against ultra-processed foods, says Joanna Blythman, food journalist and author of Swallow This
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Feature SynopsisThe Dairymen 2020: 7 November
Despite the many challenges facing the dairy sector – not just the pandemic – dairy consumption is on the up
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Feature SynopsisFocus On Protein: 24 October
Protein has become a universal cue for health. Simply putting ‘added protein’ on a product immediately communicates a positive message
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Category ReportWhat does the future of chocolate look like? Chocolate category report 2020
Confectioners have been happily living in the present this year. But now they will have to look ahead to challenges on the horizon
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Category ReportConfectionery cops a curveball: sugar category report 2020
Boris Johnson has thrown confectioners into a spin with a get fit quick plan that bans certain ads and promos. Can they shape up?
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Feature SynopsisFocus On Cakes and Biscuits: 17 October
We all need a treat after the year we’ve had. Does that explain why bakers have been pulling out the stops with indulgent NPD?
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NewsMission Ventures opens up Good Fund Fund to wider category of brands
Food and drink accelerator Mission Ventures has reopened applications for its Good Food Fund.
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NewsObesity strategy risks being waste of time and money, warns NAO report
The NAO said successive governments had done too little to evaluate the success of their interventions in tackling childhood obesity
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NewsMedia Bites 8 September: AB InBev, Charles Wilson, Amazon, Primark
Anheuser-Busch InBev has launched a process to replace chief executive Carlos Brito
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NewsPHE waters down ‘unrealistic’ calorie reduction targets
Public Health England today published a long-delayed list of voluntary targets for the sector
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Comment & OpinionBanning promotions of HFSS food isn’t the way to tackle obesity
Banning promotions on HFSS foods would reduce the choice on shelf and increase prices for shoppers Tackling obesity is an important public health priority, irrespective of economics. Indeed, with increasing evidence of the association between obesity and poorer Covid-19 outcomes, the government is right to want to ...
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NewsCalls for Nutri-Score to replace traffic light nutrition labels
The National Obesity Forum said it had decided the alternative system was superior
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Analysis & FeaturesHas traffic light health labelling reached the end of the road?
Could the traffic light labelling system face the chop? And what will replace it?
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NewsSugar promo ban alone to cost £1.7bn new report shows
The impact of the HFSS promotions ban will be ‘bigger than anything seen before’
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NewsQuinola launches trio of microwave quinoa meals for children
The brand is hoping to offer a healthier alternative to most kids’ options
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Analysis & FeaturesHow a UK internal market could affect food and drink
The UK’s four nations are on a ‘collision course’ over proposals
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Analysis & FeaturesWhere does the scrapping of PHE leave the obesity strategy?
The government is scrapping PHE over its ‘failures’ to handle the pandemic. So what next for the PM’s new war on obesity?
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NewsFSA in the frame to handle reformulation strategy
Food Standards Agency a potential contender to take over PHE reformulation strategy