Health insight and analysis – Page 66
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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.
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The Big Interview
Mars boss Fiona Dawson in the hot seat
This week’s guest editor, Mars Chocolate UK president Fiona Dawson, on Responsibility, reformulation… and Roy Hodgson.
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Comment and Opinion
Comparing food or fighter jets? I know which is more useful for kids
It’s five years since The Grocer first ‘discovered’ EdStat, a children’s card game, based on Top Trumps, in which nutritional data about leading food and drink products is ‘trumped’.
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Profiles and QandAs
Diet Chef targets European success
Kevin Dorren has a lot to thank Denise Van Outen for. Last June she tweeted about the “amazing results”…
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Analysis and Features
Can Lansley rub out tobacco trade... and at what price?
Andrew Lansley wants to stub out the trade, but suppliers remain determined to push to push the case against enforcing generic packaging.
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Comment and Opinion
Busybodies and disapprovers are on the march
April is the cruellest month, wrote TS Eliot. In political terms, the present one is also turning out to be the most perverse.
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The Big Interview
The £14bn breakfast club
So PepsiCo is turning its back on the health agenda, is it? Hardly, says David Murray, general manager of Quaker and Tropicana. Indeed, health is key to its plans.
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Comment and Opinion
There's so much more we can do to cut salt
As a country we’re very patriotic, championing national days of celebration for everything from our apples to our chips.
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Comment and Opinion
Plain packaging is final nail for local stores
Wouldn’t it be more sensible to assess the impact of the display ban before considering further tobacco restrictions?
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Comment and Opinion
A failure in Responsibility
A year after the government launched its Public Health Responsibility Deal for England, the bid to “tackle health inequalities” has so far proved inadequate.
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Profiles and QandAs
Rocker turned 'dadpreneur'
Former musician and brand consultant Dan Brown was so fed up with the lack of healthy frozen treats for kids, he launched his own.
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Comment and Opinion
Three minutes to change your life
If your dieting resolve has weakened of late, have no fear. As Obese: A Year to Save My Life ended, so Supersize vs Superskinny began.
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Comment and Opinion
Beware the likely mission creep
Whatever you think of tobacco, it’s important to remember that it is still perfectly legal to sell it.
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Comment and Opinion
Demonising fags and booze I get... but cheese?
If you went to watch a Green Bay Packers game in Wisconsin late last year, you would have seen a curious public advertisement.
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Comment and Opinion
Happy chemicals and super-powered staples
How refreshing - an investigation into what’s good about the food we eat rather than more lazy “it’s all carcinogenic…
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Analysis and Features
Crunch time: what now as PepsiCo loses fizz?
What lessons can the struggling PepsiCo US learn from its more successful UK arm? Is ditching the focus on health the key to reversing its fortunes?
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Comment and Opinion
A healthy way to start your day?
Cereals have for too long embodied wider problems that make it difficult to eat healthily: marketed as healthy…
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The Big Interview
Greater Sporting Knowhow
Peter Harding has a secret weapon. The UK boss of GlaxoSmithKline tells us how he’s warming up for a “year of sport”.
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Comment and Opinion
At last, some palatable diet advice
Slimmers blame themselves for lacking willpower and self-control, but might the explanation for failure lie elsewhere?
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Analysis and Features
Food-borne diseases: the danger within
We’ve made huge progress in understanding food-borne diseases, but the journey is far from over.