Health news – Page 111
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School meals service 'set to collapse'
The government has been told to significantly increase its investment in school meals or risk losing its fight against childhood obesity.In an open letter to secretary of state for children, schools and families Ed Balls, the Food For...
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There's a wealth of alternative choices
Sir; Cutting down on meat and milk has been little-disputed advice in the past few years and has stimulated redoubled campaigning. Goods rated meat-free, dairy-free, and cruelty-free combine interests in tackling obesity, waste, and...
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Rain and smoking ban cut Costco profits 24%
Bad weather, the smoking ban and cost pressures led to a 24.2% fall in pre-tax profit at Costco Wholesale UK, according to the latest accounts. Full-year pre-tax profit fell from £22.3m to £16.9m in the year to 2 September, 2007, on...
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Fury as FSA urges booze labels to include calories
The Food Standards Agency's plan to draw the alcohol industry into the obesity debate has been slammed by manufacturers as ridiculous and potentially damaging to the responsible drinking message. At a board meeting this week, the FSA...
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Influencers
New entry 1 Will Cavendish director of health and wellbeing, dept of Health The food and drink industry has taken the rap for the obesity epidemic plaguing this country. Now Cavendish is promising a more holistic approach....
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Tyrrells and Kettle premium sales boost crisps category
Strong sales for premium crisp brands such as Tyrrells and Kettle have boosted the crisps and snacks category and helped counter the impact of obesity concerns.Sales in the overall crisps, nuts and snacks market were up 5.8% to £1.5bn...
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Forget more rules on food ads, we're babied enough
Placing even more restrictions on food marketing won't tackle childhood obesity. Getting children to exercise regularly might thoughI am opposed to advertising restrictions, be they designed to limit exposure to food products or any...
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The war on smoking: is this a step too far?
First it was an advertising blackout. Then smoking in public places was banned and the legal age to buy tobacco was raised from 16 to 18. And from October 2008, graphic health warnings featuring explicit and disturbing images of cancerous lungs...
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Changing the menu
Now that Yo! Sushi has become the first restaurant to adopt traffic-light labelling, the FSA is hoping other restaurants will follow suit. The FSA's line of argument is that if the nation really wants to address the obesity agenda, it is...
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'Dawn will stub us out'
Government proposals to force cigarettes under the counter will have little effect on underage smoking and force retailers out of business.That was the message emerging from manufacturers, retailers and wholesalers. Legal team and...
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What the papers said - 29th March 2008
Banning cigarette displays in shops to discourage people from smoking could backfire by glamourising tobacco among the young, the Daily Mail said. The Federation of Small Businesses described the proposals to force tobacco under the counter and...
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We ask... How has the smoking ban affected sales?
Reviewing margins Cash & carry operator ? After the ban came in, the initial falls were as predicted. However, suppliers had also predicted a relatively quick recovery, which has not yet materialised. As such, we have asked...
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How has the smoking ban affected sales? - Reader Survey
Source: Email poll of wholesalers Wholesalers have been left frustrated by a lack of support from big tobacco suppliers following a larger-than-predicted fall in sales after the introduction of the ban on smoking in public places across the UK. Two...
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Reader survey - tobacco sales
Wholesalers have been left frustrated by a lack of support from big tobacco suppliers following a larger-than-predicted fall in sales after the introduction of the ban on smoking in public places across the UK.Two thirds of the wholesalers...
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Suppliers expect levelling out after ban hits sales of tobacco
The decline in sales of tobacco following last summer's ban on smoking in public paces is accelerating, new figures show.In the 12 months to the end of January 2008, the number of sticks sold fell almost 4% to 47 billion, according...
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Government urged to work more closely with retailers
Strategies to combat obesity, waste and climate change are doomed to fail unless government can work with big supermarket chains, claims a leading policy think tank.In Green, Healthy and Fair, a report published today (Saturday), the...
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Only idiots need food labels - and they don't want them
Food labels alone will do nothing to stop the obesity crisis - people just need to stop making excuses for not eating a balanced diet Ihave disliked John Humphrys for years - ever since he hosted an event for the National Federation of...
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The Big Eat: digesting the new plans to tackle obesity
Alan Johnson summed it up: "The problem is simple: we eat too much and we do too little exercise," said the secretary of state at the Department of Health. "The solution is more complex. From the nature of the food we eat, to the way our...
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Industry urges Johnson not to assume clear-cut winner
Supporters of front-of-pack GDAs have urged the government to exercise caution in its bid to make the food industry adopt a single system of nutrition labelling.At the unveiling of the Department of Health's obesity strategy report -...
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Dairy industry urged to join obesity debate
Dairy products have a key role to play in weight loss, but this needs to be better communicated to consumers, delegates at a dairy industry obesity conference were told this week.The industry needed to make the public aware dairy was...