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Government to unveil obesity strategy
Health secretary Alan Johnson is expected to unveil the government's long-awaited obesity strategy later today, with food labelling expected to feature highly.Retailers and manufacturers currently use a combination of front-of-pack traffic...
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Does obesity carry too much weight?
Is the supposed obesity epidemic in danger of overshadowing genuinely weighty issues such as climate change and food security? This is the question many food and drink experts are asking in the wake of obesity-focused media coverage...
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Thick bread. It's a disgrace
Pssst. Do you want to know the real cause of obesity? It's nothing to do with people gorging themselves on sweets and fizzy drinks, or eating Big Macs, apparently, but rather the curse of the thick-cut sliced sarnie.This revelation was...
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Lords' pre-9pm ad ban call is jumping the gun says DH
The government has distanced itself from a call by the Department of Health's chief whip to introduce a pre-9pm ban on the advertising of junk food.In a House of Lords debate on obesity, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon was asked by...
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Carrier bags at dawn
We've had a smoking ban, a ban on junk food ads for kids and now retailers are facing the prospect of a ban on the humble plastic carrier bag.Despite the raft of green initiatives launched by the supermarkets, it is the throwaway bag...
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Obesity: industry braced for tough government measures
The government is planning to make a major announcement on how it is to tackle the rising rate of obesity in the UK, The Grocer has learned.It is gearing up to respond to the Foresight report, which claimed 50% of the British population...
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Healthy eating badge to help tackle obesity
Alongside basic aviation skills and street sports, Britain's youngest members of the Scout and Guide movement will soon be able to get a badge for healthy eating, The Grocer has learned.The course is being developed by the Eat in Colour...
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Super-abundant choice is insane
Excessive food supply creates social, medical and environmental problems. It's time to end the culture of far too much choiceThe Foresight report on obesity published last month should end the yah-boo debates about whether rising obesity...
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Freeman defends his findings from centre of storm
The Grocer So. No mention of a smoking gun. What happened to those 11 million emails you were supposed to be examining during the last months of your inquiry? Did they turn into a damp squib then? Peter Freeman The background was the...
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A green light for the best of both worlds?
W hich way do you swing? Traffic lights? GDAs? Or a bit of both? A poll of GPs and healthcare workers at a National Obesity Forum conference last week found 71% of them preferred traffic lights over GDAs. The survey is the latest in a...
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Obesity - is the industry sleepwalking into a crisis?
To turn around the public debate about the looming obesity crisis, the food industry needs to be more consistent and display confidence The government has said the threat of obesity is as bad as climate change. Much of the newspaper...
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Childhood obesity warning considered
Parents could be sent an official warning if their children are obese under plans being considered by the government.All children are weighed at five and 10 years old as part of the National Child Measurement Programme. Parents can currently...
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young, fit and boxing clever
Depending on which way you look at it, it's either been a good year for Cadbury's brands - or a disastrous one. Rocked by the salmonella incident and the demonisation of HFSS foods by the obesity police, Dairy Milk has seen its brand...
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Fat get fatter, thin stay thin, claims new obesity research
The food industry has come under fire for contributing to the nation's bulging waistline once again, but a new study has challenged the assumption that food is chiefly to blame for obesity. People have a genetic susceptibility to weight...
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Has the IndustrY done Enough?
HG Wells once described advertising as legalised lying. It's a view that lobby groups against the food and drink industry share. It tricks kids into eating sugary, salty, fatty foods, they say, and has caused an obesity crisis....
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Grocers fuming over smoking law delays
A failure by the Scottish Executive to publicise an increase in the legal smoking age to 18 will put shop workers at risk, according to the Scottish Grocers' Federation. The change was proposed on 1 January by then Labour/Lib Dem...
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The NPM is 'little better than a crude calorie count'
As the FSA began the process of reviewing its controversial Nutrient Profiling Model this week, it was on the receiving end of more criticism. Dr Adam Drewnowski, a leading nutritionist and expert in obesity, published a peer-reviewed...
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Smoke or mirrors in retrospective inquiry?
As the Competition Commission prepares to wade through an estimated 11 million emails, and thousands of phone calls, from Asda and Tesco and its suppliers, the inquiry appeared this week to have reached a pivotal moment. Has it found the smoking gun...
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Smoking rebel host voted out of pubwatch
Hamish Howitt, who has been allowing smoking at his Happy Scots Bar in Blackpool, has received a vote of no confidence from the pubwatch group he chaired.The vote was taken by members of Blackpool & Fylde Pubwatch shortly after...