Health insight and analysis – Page 48
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Comment and Opinion
Sugar tax sets a dangerous precedent
Manufacturers and retailers have been taking action for several years to reduce sugar and calorie intake from soft drinks
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Analysis and Features
Manuka honey: why haven't New Zealand's guidelines worked?
What needs to happen so UK consumers can be confident they are buying true-to-label products?
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Analysis and Features
Industry divided as childhood obesity plan is watered down
Sainsbury’s CEO Mike Coupe says there should have been “compulsory measured targets across all nutrients”
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Comment and Opinion
Childhood Obesity Plan: or COP-out for short
It is quite some achievement to have spent the best part of two years drawing up a strategy only to produce a document that leaves all sides in the debate feeling almost equally underwhelmed
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Comment and Opinion
When it comes to health, we really should trust the experts
Rights and wrongs in politics are distinctly burry, but we shouldn’t lump expertise from highly regarded doctors in with economic forecasts or political think tanks
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Comment and Opinion
Time for campaigners against Olympic junk food and booze sponsorship to get real
The tough economic climate means it’s harder than ever to make the case against sponsorship
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Comment and Opinion
Which? has picked the wrong target with its promotions complaint
If the new PM has done her research, she will know several previous attempts under the failed Responsibility Deal to tackle the thorny issue of promotions fell flat
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Comment and Opinion
Supermarkets have to grab the vitamin D opportunity
Almost everyone should be taking a vitamin D supplement between October and March, according to new advice from PHE
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Comment and Opinion
Vitamin D advice needs back-up from Eatwell
For years I have taken 25mcg of vitamin D3 daily in autumn and winter, defying adamant medics
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Analysis and Features
Can Brexit be a new start for food policy?
Food Foundation is already making waves with calls for tougher action on HFSS regulation, food poverty and sustainability
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Comment and Opinion
Balance is key when it comes to baby food
Store-bought and homemade can work together to help children develop healthy relationships with food, says Paul Lindley of Ella’s Kitchen
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Comment and Opinion
‘Fake’ farms crusade is the wrong fight at the wrong time
Why does the National Farmers Union think it’s a smart idea to pick a fight with British farming’s biggest customer right now?
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Analysis and Features
Role of fat in Eatwell plate advice splits health lobby in two
Health lobby ‘at each other’s throats’ over new PHE Eatwell guide
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Comment and Opinion
Pokémon provides a fun alternative to a childhood obesity strategy
The past week has proved that Britain’s pint-sized couch potatoes don’t need government strategies to get moving
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Analysis and Features
EU gives glyphosate 18-month extension
The current approval period for the herbicide will be extended until the end of 2017
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Comment and Opinion
They eat meat in the Med! The mythology of 'foreign' diets
Dieticians seem terribly confused about foreign eating habits, says Joanna Blythman
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Comment and Opinion
Has the government struck a secret deal over sugar cuts with industry?
The DH must come up with a set of proposals that are far more structured than the Responsibility Deal
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Comment and Opinion
Eat right, not clean: ignore food fads and stick to your guns
Where’s the space for those of us ‘just eating’ or, in our case, ‘eating right’?
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Comment and Opinion
Food Unwrapped: sound advice on holiday weight loss
This show had some good tips on how to cheer up when the time comes to strip off in front of strangers in the sunshine
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Comment and Opinion
Healthy eating starts at primary school
We have just marked the end of another successful Healthy Eating Week from the British Nutrition Foundation