Health insight and analysis – Page 65
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Comment and Opinion
Eternal youth is wasted on the elderly
The more miserable we are, the longer we live. During the Great Depression, life expectancy…
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Comment and Opinion
The real Olympic legacy
Seven years in the planning and a few weeks in execution, the Olympics is a strange affair.
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Category Report
Canned food suppliers look to build health cred
Consumers are attracted to canned goods for a number of reasons - but it’s fair to say that health has not, traditionally, been one.
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Comment and Opinion
Consumers need champions
In my time as retail controller of the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) I was a member of…
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Comment and Opinion
Educating the anti-salt lobby
As someone who has low, not high, blood pressure, I get a little irritated with health charities on a salt reduction crusade.
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Comment and Opinion
Sports drinks: the facts
We were disappointed by the views expressed in the BBC Panorama programme The Truth About…
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Comment and Opinion
The one billion unit pledge
Last week I witnessed something quite unexpected. The Health Select Committee report on the…
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Analysis and Features
Hitting the wall: what next in the race to reduce salt?
Food companies say they can’t cut salt levels any further. Health campaigners…
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Comment and Opinion
Sharp practice, dull shoppers
A few seconds and a bowlful of cookies were all it took to show how meaningless five-a-day claims are in isolation.
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Comment and Opinion
Time for brands to get sweet on diabetics
Diabetes is on the rise. Almost 60% of people tested at a recent health roadshow were found to be at risk of diabetes.
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Analysis and Features
The Olympic food trials
With 300,000 extra people a day expected during the Olympics, hygiene inspectors are working overtime to ensure food safety is spot on.
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Analysis and Features
Up in smoke: can indies save cig sales?
Booker claimed the introduction of the supermarket tobacco display ban would help yield a £1bn sales boost for smaller stores this year.
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Comment and Opinion
How Richard Nixon made us fat
Admit it, you thought The Men Who Made Us Fat was going to be a hatchet job too.
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Analysis and Features
How the industry's calories reduction pledges weigh up
Retailers and suppliers are certainly talking a good talk. But can they really walk five billion calories off Britain’s daily diet?
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Comment and Opinion
Is the economy shaky or flaky?
In two weeks, world governments will meet in Rio de Janeiro to discuss sustainable development…
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Comment and Opinion
The illusion of progress
American President Calvin Coolidge was once asked how he managed to remain healthy in a job that had…
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Comment and Opinion
We should market healthy products to kids
This year saw many of Europe’s big food and snack companies sign an enhanced ‘pledge’ to promise not…
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Analysis and Features
Orange juice hangs on despite Brazil fungicide fear
Orange juice was one of 2012’s first commodity scare stories - prices skyrocketed 20% overnight after a controversial fungicide was found…
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Comment and Opinion
How can we rid chicken of campylobacter?
Recent Which? research found that 18% of supermarket chickens were contaminated with campylobacter and 17% with listeria.