Health insight and analysis – Page 59
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Comment and Opinion
Local means local
After all the excitement of the Budget last week, it was time for the alcohol industry to get back in the dock.
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Comment and Opinion
Be well informed about wellness trends
Retailers will increasingly juggle health requirements of customers, government, consumer groups and health professionals…
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Comment and Opinion
Sugar witchhunt is simplistic and infantile
Original estimates that suggested 50% of the population would be obese by 2050 now seem optimistic…
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Comment and Opinion
Hidden in plain sight
Timed to coincide with Salt Awareness Week (10-16 March), a study funded by the British Heart Foundation claims that teenagers are “unknowingly putting their health at risk by eating too much salt”.
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Comment and Opinion
Hungry Britain: why Panorama's documentary is like food poverty
Today’s Panorama is a pale imitation of the programmes overseen by the late Sir Robin Day…
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Analysis and Features
Nascent e-cigs market dashed as EU's ruling 'misses point'
E-cigs: so near to the tipping point, has the EU’s 11th hour change to tobacco directive scuppered all the good work?…
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Comment and Opinion
How to restore consumer confidence in food provenance
The horsemeat scandal led to a huge dent in public confidence in the global supply chain. Here’s how we can restore confidence…
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Comment and Opinion
Stick to facts on sugar!
If we are to make any progress in our understanding of diet and health, we must address the key issues honestly…
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Comment and Opinion
CASH’s smartphone app could be on the money
Last week, Professor Graham MacGregor, the scientist behind Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) – and the campaign for new targets on sugar reduction - accused prominent anti-sugar campaigners of being “nutters”.
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Comment and Opinion
Nutrition debates should not rely on science alone
In 1902, the US government’s top food chemist was granted funding to investigate the effects of chemical food additives…
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Comment and Opinion
Stitch up? Not so much
The Daily Mail has revealed ‘secret stitch up’ meetings between ministers and the food industry. But is the reality as sinister as it sounds?
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Comment and Opinion
Flexibility and the ASA
Less attention has been given to one aspect of the ASA’s ruling on Lucozade that permits some welcome flexibility…
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Comment and Opinion
Dispatches doesn't let facts about sugar obscure a good story
Stop with all the sugar bashing! It’s making me eat the stuff!…
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Comment and Opinion
Cutting sugar won't solve obesity crisis alone
The “demonisation” of sugar as the cause of the obesity epidemic leaves a bitter taste…
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Comment and Opinion
Sugar hysteria is feeding new food fads
Here we go again – another bout of hysteria sweeps the media…
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Category Report
Added sugar must be cut, kids yoghurt brands told
Fizzy drinks, cereals and confectionery are obvious whipping boys for the health lobby. But yoghurts, particularly aimed at babies and kids, are also under fire from health campaigners. You can understand why when you look at the sugar content of many kids yoghurts - low-fat and salt products that otherwise ...
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Comment and Opinion
There's more to the obesity crisis than sugar
In the past fortnight, sugar has been singled out as a lead cause of the obesity epidemic in the UK…
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Comment and Opinion
New sugar campaign spices up food politics
Sugar has long been a hot political issue. Action on Sugar, launched last week, was about its impact on public health…
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Comment and Opinion
The obesity debate breaks bad
In the obesity debate a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but not as bad as making it up…
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Analysis and Features
Obesity in the UK: Who’s saying what?
As health bodies debate the scale of the obesity crisis facing the UK, The Grocer rounds up competing claims.