Health insight and analysis – Page 41
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Comment and Opinion
Childhood Obesity Plan Mark 2: things are about to get seriously complicated
If Theresa May thought this was an easy policy to pluck off the shelf to win much needed domestic credibility, she may have to think again
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Comment and Opinion
Reformulation drive is off to a reasonable start
With a third of primary school children and two thirds of adults overweight or obese, obesity is an issue that’s population
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Comment and Opinion
Sugar shaming is off the mark – the out-of-home ‘black hole’ is the real scandal
As the report today sadly confirms, it is all going on unmeasured and unpoliced, while companies who have been responding find their names dragged through the mud, and it makes a mockery of the reformulation programme
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Comment and Opinion
UK legislation is lagging behind when it comes to transfats
The WHO estimates transfat consumption is responsible for more than 500,000 deaths from cardiovascular disease every year, so why isn’t the food industry – and the government – taking more action?
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Comment and Opinion
Fat is bad after all, says SACN. So will we see a reformulation drive?
Suppliers may have found it impossible to make a stand against the tide of medical advice on sugar, but with saturated fats there is more division among experts
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Comment and Opinion
Can Peas Please’s generic veg campaign win funding? And will it work?
The timing of the launch could not be more opportune after Defra released its Family Food Survey, which found consumers were purchasing fewer fresh green vegetables in 2016/17 than in 2013
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Comment and Opinion
Catching up with the low-sugar zeitgeist
We tend to forget the role of high street coffee chains in fuelling our monstrous sugar addiction
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Comment and Opinion
Britain's Fat Fight: Hugh F-W kicks off his obesity campaign
Britain’s Fat Fight with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall got off to a sensationalist start
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Analysis and Features
Soft drinks: will new recipes have the halo effect?
Sugar-laden drinks are suddenly public enemy number one. So can healthy, natural recipes rejuvenate the soft drinks industry?
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Comment and Opinion
Data will be crucial for lower-calorie reformulation
Fighting Britain’s obesity crisis moved up a gear this month when Public Health England’s sugar tax came into force
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Analysis and Features
Can Twinings' cold water infusion take it beyond tea?
Twinings emerged as the focal point for coffee aficionados last weekend
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Analysis and Features
Eight innovative new crisp alternatives
Consumers are choosing lighter options when it comes to savoury snacking, here’s our pick of the best new crisp alternatives
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Comment and Opinion
Food labelling: doing what it says on the tin
I have been drawn to food labelling issues over the last few weeks due to a number of unconnected events
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Category Report
Playing the game: Soft Drinks Category Report 2018
You’d expect the taxman to have lost a few friends last week when he began levying as much as 24p for every litre of sugar
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Comment and Opinion
Will the government dance to Jamie and Hugh’s anti-obesity tune?
Oliver is said to have already met the prime mnister and senior ministers to discuss measures that could be brought in as part of an obesity pan
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Analysis and Features
Soft drinks brands shrug off sugar tax as shares improve
Our analysis of share price performance across listed groups in the firing line shows double-digit rises for most key players
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Analysis and Features
16 innovative new soft drinks coming to supermarkets
This isn’t just a new flavour variant, says Vita Coco. It’s a whole new category for the brand
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Comment and Opinion
Sugar tax gives us an opportunity to be responsible
Friday saw the start of the widely debated soft drinks sugar tax
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Analysis and Features
The sugar tax: five things you need to know
It’s all over the headlines today and has been branded everything from a health saviour to a blunt instrument
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Comment and Opinion
Surviving the sugar tax requires radical honesty
The UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy, otherwise known as the sugar tax, is finally here…