All Health articles – Page 129
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Analysis & FeaturesSatfat reduction challenge: Scotland bites deeper
Scotland’s draft framework to tackle obesity includes prescriptive category-wide reformulation targets…
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Category ReportFocus on healthcare: Innovations
Two weight-loss supplements have been combined into one “natural weight-loss product”, Raspberry Ketones and Green coffee Bean Extract…
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Category ReportFocus on healthcare: shoppers turn stockpilers
The vitamins, minerals & supplements (VMS) market continues to see slight growth.
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Category ReportFocus on healthcare and supplements
It’s a healthy picture for cost-conscious vitamin fans: specialists have lost chunks of market share to the discounters and multiples…
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Analysis & FeaturesTB reactor meat: where retailers and suppliers stand
The Grocer asked retailers and suppliers to spell out their policies on cattle that have tested positive for bovine TB…
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NewsE-cigarettes to be regulated as medicine from 2016
Electronic cigarettes are set to be regulated as a medicine from 2016, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency said today.
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Comment & Opinion
Conservatives' tobacco smoke signals are not encouraging
Stupidly, I had begun to think that nothing politicians did would amaze me any longer…
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NewsGDA+ label to accentuate the positive
European food and drink companies are exploring a new voluntary front-of-pack labelling scheme called GDA+.
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NewsCoca-Cola believed to be among suppliers set to adopt hybrid labelling scheme
The government has won the backing of a series of major UK suppliers for its new hybrid front-of-pack labelling system…
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Comment & Opinion
Scots lead in responsibility
There is a different approach to many food issues emerging north of the border…
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Comment & 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 & FeaturesClubcard is recruited as a fat fighter as Tesco sets agenda
A gimmick, or pre-empting a backlash against voluntary action?…
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NewsTesco reveals Clubcard healthier eating plans
Tesco CEO Philip Clarke has unveiled plans to use its Clubcard loyalty programme to tackle the UK’s obesity crisis…
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NewsCo-op study blasts unhealthy lifestyles of TV soap characters
Characters in the UK’s biggest soap operas are setting a bad example with high levels of unhealthy eating and alcohol consumption, a new study by the Co-operative Group has revealed.
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NewsGovernment researchers find 'little evidence' Responsibility Deal is working
Researchers brought in by the government to study the effectiveness of its Responsibility Deal with the food and drink industry have found there…
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Comment & Opinion
GM feed: supermarkets are talking tosh
What tosh supermarkets talk about listening to their customers…
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NewsTobacco companies welcome Queen's silence on plain packs
The omission of plain packs legislation for tobacco in this week’s Queen’s speech was welcomed by tobacco companies…
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NewsQueen’s speech sidesteps minimum pricing and plain packs
As expected, the Queen’s speech avoided any mention of legislation on minimum alcohol pricing or plain packs for tobacco.
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Comment & OpinionPlain 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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NewsWheyhey protein-enriched ice cream makes comeback
Protein-enriched ice-cream brand Wheyhey is back in business…