Health insight and analysis – Page 58
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Analysis and Features
Halal meat labelling: No quick fix in sight
Halal meat is in the headlines yet again. And there is one clear message: post-Horsegate, consumers want better information about meat.
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Analysis and Features
Tesco war on sugar now targets artificial sweeteners
Tesco is playing a major supporting role in making sugar public enemy number one…
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Comment and Opinion
Labour plans to micro-manage our diets - it won't work
The nanny state, like an old comic opera, is about to have a revival…
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Comment and Opinion
Food poverty alarm call
Last week, 170 public health doctors and specialists wrote an open letter on food poverty to the PM…
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Comment and Opinion
Gluten-free market bursting with potential says Mrs Crimble's
The UK gluten-free market is now worth over £175m and saw the highest number of launches of any food category last year…
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Analysis and Features
Drinks industry action under Responsibility Deal scrutinised
When wines and spirits have got stronger, how genuine is the drinks industry’s achievement in slashing 253 million units?…
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Analysis and Features
Pudology: Hitting the sweet spot in free-from desserts
Forced by health issues to change her diet and career, Lucy Wager developed free-from brand Pudology…
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Comment and Opinion
Traffic lights are still confusing consumers
It’s good to see more suppliers supporting the government’s attempts to improve food labelling…
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Comment and Opinion
Help shoppers decode confusing health claims
Back in 2001, a Food Advisory Committee report highlighted the confusion over food labelling…
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Comment and Opinion
The food industry must take more responsibility for kids' diets
This September, one in five children starting primary school in the UK will be officially overweight or obese…
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Analysis and Features
Is Tesco's food labelling policy completely nuts?
Retailer insists it warns only when there is risk of contamination…
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Comment and Opinion
With fizzy pop, sugar is only half the story
Fizzy lemonade is the perfect pop for a recession: cheap, sweet, inoffensive, and a good mixer too…
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Comment and Opinion
A changing mindset
The scourge of binge drinking facing the nation may be less of a crisis than the government and health campaigners had led us to believe.
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Comment and Opinion
There's too much alarm over sugar and sweeteners
The launch of health campaign group Action on Sugar in January sparked a debate around sugars in the diet…
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Comment and Opinion
Marketing food and drink to the unselfish consumer
Fat, salt, carbs and fibre are all nutritional elements that have been under the spotlight in the past decade…
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Comment and Opinion
Is there a sweet solution to the sugar problem?
The sugar lobby has lost its war to keep a lid on the health risks posed by its product…
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Comment and Opinion
Waitrose juice shake-up is a sign of the times
Almost overnight, fruit juice has become public health enemy number one…
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Comment and Opinion
Chantler review takes us back to the start
Where does the government’s tobacco policy stand after yesterday’s Chantler review into plain packs?
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Comment and Opinion
Vaping not aping
Does the e-cig industry need make some changes if it wants to convince politicians it is the bright new future?
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Analysis and Features
Budget poses fresh questions over government high-alcohol battle
Does the Budget indicate a cosy relationship with brewers and distillers? Or are bingers still in the firing line?…