Health insight and analysis – Page 62
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Analysis and Features
As sugar commodity prices halve, UK still paying top dollar
World sugar prices have almost halved in two years but UK food manufacturers report only modest price declines…
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Comment and Opinion
Scots lead in responsibility
There is a different approach to many food issues emerging north of the border…
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Comment and Opinion
Why everyone's talking about sustainable diets
What is a sustainable diet? This innocuous question raises fiendishly complex issues…
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Analysis and Features
Clubcard is recruited as a fat fighter as Tesco sets agenda
A gimmick, or pre-empting a backlash against voluntary action?…
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Comment and Opinion
GM feed: supermarkets are talking tosh
What tosh supermarkets talk about listening to their customers…
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Comment and Opinion
Plain packs - back on the shelf?
Today the Department of Health told me of its surprise at a story in The Sun proclaiming the news the PM had scrapped plans to force tobacco into plain packs…
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Analysis and Features
Will 'digital' cigarettes light up the UK tobacco market?
Forecasts of the electronic cigarette making traditional tobacco obsolete may be plausible…
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Comment and Opinion
Obesity: local authorities may turn more interventionist
On 1 April, responsibility for public health was transferred from the Department of Health to local government…
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Comment and Opinion
In the health onslaught, this looks like a salt and battery
The industry is suffering from a health regulation onslaught, or as it should henceforth be known, a salt and battery…
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Analysis and Features
Salt reduction: Can technology overcome the DH's bombshell?
The government now wants a red light for any portion containing more than 1.8g of salt…
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Analysis and Features
Do new Coke ads convince that it cares about obesity?
Three experts rule: impressive altruism or just saccharine PR?…
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Category Report
Frozen yoghurt in healthy sales surge
Super-indulgent stick and tub formats might be ones to watch in the ice cream aisle in 2013, but so is super-healthy froze…
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Comment and Opinion
Get set for digital health
Much of the excitement at the recent CES gadget show in Las Vegas centred on wearable technology…
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Comment and Opinion
The obesity crisis is a personal problem, too
Last week’s recommendations from the Academy of Medical Colleges highlighted the growing obesity crisis in the UK…
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Comment and Opinion
Is employee welfare the next health scare to face the industry?
When I worked at The Grocer, the spotlight was on BSE, e.coli and food colouring…
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Comment and Opinion
After horsegate, value products need better values
No surprise that 15% of 6,221 consumers interviewed by Kantar said they would think twice about buying value ranges…
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Comment and Opinion
After horsegate we need to rethink meat values
The latest scandal to expose the broken nature of our food system is the revelation of horsemeat in ‘value’ burgers…
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Comment and Opinion
Horse meat: Shorter supply chains may help rebuild trust
As the horse meat scandal serves up ever-more shocking revelations, a number of things stand out…
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Category Report
Tobacco - going upin smoke?
First the display ban, now rising duty, the threat of plain packs and smokers downtrading. Can the industry fight back?…
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Category Report
E-cigs: safer alternative's sales are soaring
As tobacco continues to feel the heat from legislation and consumer downtrading, one market is doing very nicely…