Sugar in the News
December
- Nutrition Insight: Exposed Coca-Cola documents reveal attempts to influence teenage health perceptions (December 20th)
- CNN Health: Half of America will be obese within 10 years, study says (December 19th)
- The Daily Mail: Eating too much – not exercising too little – is the biggest driver of obesity in children (December 19th)
- Food Navigator: Obesity and undernutrition ‘paradox’ fuelled by poor quality food, say experts (December 16th)
- BBC News: Poorest countries facing both obesity and malnutrition (December 16th)
- IGD: How McDonald’s has helped nudge consumers to choose healthier drinks (December 10th)
- BBC News: Obesity inequality gap grows for Scottish children (December 10th)
- The Conversation: Social deprivation linked to changes in eating styles in early childhood (December 9th)
- The Telegraph: Sainsbury's puts sugary cereals on its top shelves in drive that could reduce childhood obesity (December 8th)
- Feedback: The dark truth about sugar beet(December 6th)
- Pharma Times: Over half the nation ‘at risk’ of chronic disease due to obesity (December 4th)
- Action on Sugar: Festive Hot Drinks Loaded with Sugar & Calories Reveals Lack of Progress in Achieving Sugar Reduction Targets (December 3rd)
- Food Manufcature: Social media advertising damaging obesity work (December 2nd)
November
- TES: Pupils may eat less fruit and veg under new rules (November 29th)
- Reuters: Nestle to use Nutri-Score nutrition-labelling in Europe (November 27th)
- The Guardian: Norwegians cut sugar intake to lowest level in 44 years (November 20th)
- The Independent:Dentists condemn coca-cola Christmas truck tour: 'fizzy drinks have no place in a child's diet' (November 19th)
- The Guardian: We don’t mock smokers with lung cancer, so why sneer at the obese? (November 16th)
- The Guardian: Obesity almost doubles in 20 years to affect 13 million people (November 14th)
- Action on Sugar and Action on Salt: 2019 Manifesto - Health for All (November 14th)
- INews: Food charity calls on Government to restrict fast food shops opening near schools (November 12th)
- The Telegraph: Hospital obesity cases top a million for first time, 'startling' figures show (November 9th)
- INews: Young people tell Instagram influencers to stop promoting junk food which puts children's health 'at risk' (November 7th)
- The Guardian: Poorest hit hardest by cuts to public health spending – research (November 5th)
- Public Health Engalnd: Dental caries and obesity: their relationship in children (November 4th)
- Yahoo Finance: Tooth decay is worse today than in the 17th century (November 4th)
- The Daily Mail: Greggs is blasted for tempting children into eating junk food (November 4th)
- The Telegraph: Unhealthy lifestyles fuel a 50 per cent rise in UK deaths from liver cancer (November1st)
October
- The Guardian: Doctors call on workplaces to ban sale of sugary drinks (October 28th)
- New Food Economy: Kellogg agrees to stop marketing sugary cereals as “healthy” (October 23rd)
- The Daily Mail: Half of all breakfast cereals, yoghurts and ready meals sold in Europe 'contain too much sugar, salt or fat for children' (October 23rd)
- The Telegraph:One episode of Britain's Got Talent could cause children to eat extra 50 calories, study finds (October 23rd)
- The Grocer: Is a VAT shake-up the right way to fight obesity? (October 18th)
- The Daily Mail: Obese adults who do not cut to a healthy body weight by middle age are 20% more likely to die early, study suggests (AoS comment) (October 17th)
- The Daily Mail: Forcing restaurants to put nutritional information on their menus shames them into providing healthier food, Cambridge study finds (AoS comment) (October 16th)
- The Independent: Should we be taxing biscuits? (October 15th)
- Business Insider: LIDL is selling a spoon that promises to cut your sugar consumption by 20% (October 14th)
- The Daily Mail: A quarter of starters served in Britain's top restaurant chains contain more than 600 calories (October 11th)
- The Independent: Singapore is to become the first country to ban adverts that promote drinks with a high sugar content (October 11th)
- The Daily Mail: The average life expectancy of Americans is almost FOUR YEARS shorter, and for Britons it's nearly three years (October 10th)
- The Telegraph: Obesity among 10 year-olds hits record high: find out how your area ranks (October 10th)
- Bakery and Snacks: Is it time for a sweet snack tax? ‘We should be led by the evidence’ states UK medical head (October 10th)
- Department of Health: Time to solve childhood obesity: CMO special report (October 10th)
- The Guardian: NHS boss condemns English cricket's sponsorship deal with KP Snacks (October 8th)
- The Daily Mail: 'healthy' crisps and energy bars that advertised as having 'no added sugar' actually made with up to 60% of the sweet stuff (October 5th)
- The Telegraph:The Hundred facing criticism over junk food sponsorship (October 3rd)
- The Guardian: 250 million children worldwide forecast to be obese by 2030 (October 2nd)
September
- The National: 30% of Scots children ‘not at healthy weight’, Scottish Health Survey finds (September 25th)
- The Scotsman: Obesity is not a choice, new report shows (September 23rd)
- The Daily Mail: Doctors slam broadcasting regulator Ofcom for 'being influenced' by the junk food industry (September 23rd)
- Public Health England: Sugar reduction programme: progress between 2015 and 2018 (September 20th)
- Just Drinks: The Coca-Cola Co's delicate sports sponsorship balancing act (September 19th)
- The Daily Mail: Record numbers of young adults are being diagnosed with diabetes (September 17th)
- The Sun: A CHILD’S lunchbox can contain up to 14 teaspoons of sugar, research warns (September 16th)
- The Daily Record:Cancer charity slam SNP for delaying junk food deal ban in battle against obesity (September 15th)
- Action on Sugar: NEW product survey (the first of its kind) exposes the excessive amounts of hidden sugar and calories in waffles, pancakes, pretzels and crepes when eating out (September 12th)
- The Daily Express: Hot Chocolate from high-street coffee chains have TRIPLE your daily sugar limit (September 8th)
- The Sun: ASIA-inspired restaurant chains are packing more than a day’s sugar into main meals (AoS comment) (September 8th)
- The Grocer:The Treasury has pocketed taxes raised through the soft drinks sugar levy that were supposed to support children’s health (September 6th)
- Food Navigator: Scotland to curb HFSS foods as it outlines vision to become a ‘Good Food Nation’ (AoS comment) (September 5th)
- The Daily Mail: Taxing cakes, biscuits and sweets could tackle obesity and lead to people in the UK losing 2.8lbs (1.3kg) a year, a study has claimed (AoS comment) (September 5th)
- Talking Retail: Scotland to bring in legislation to stop in-store promotions of ‘unhealthy’ food and drink (AoS comment) (September 4th)
- The Guardian: Soft drinks, including sugar-free, linked to increased risk of early death (September 3rd)
- The Scotsman: Most parents blame ‘Bogof’ deals for obesity (September 2nd)
- The Times: Slim adults risk paying the price of childhood obesity (September 2nd)
- The Daily Express: Type 2 diabetes: ‘Health’ drinks containing more sugar than doughnuts - what are they? (September 1st)
August
- Which?: Four ways sugar is fooling you (August 31st)
- The Daily Mirror: McDonald's Happy Meals see kids eating day's worth of sugar in just one serving (AoS comment) (August 25th)
- I News: Battle to ban junk food adverts before 9pm pits the health of our children against profit (August 25th)
- Glouscestershire Live: Fresh childhood obesity warning as primary school children in Gloucestershire found weighing almost 16st (August 25th)
- The Guardian: Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith to advise on hospital food (August 23rd)
- Food Standards Scotland Release: The Out of Home Environment in Scotland (June 2015 - June 2018) (August 21st)
- BBC News: Call for crackdown on junk food price deals to tackle obesity (August 20th)
- Scottish Obesity Alliance Release: First Minister: Legislate this year on HFSS multi-buy price promotions (August 18th)
- Action on Sugar Release: New Study Reveals Sugar in Some Chocolate Confectionery Products have Increased since 1992 (August 17th)
- The Conversation: Supermarkets put junk food on special twice as often as healthy food, and that’s a problem (August 15th)
- Royal College of Surgeons: Leading dental surgeons call for sugar free schools to tackle scourge of child tooth decay in England (August 15th)
- The Guardian: 'No food should be taboo': how to tackle your child's weight – without giving them a complex (August 12th)
- Natural Products News: UK Government to ban sale of energy drinks to under-16s (AoS comment) (August 12th)
- The Telegraph: Milka criticised for advert casting call demanding 'no overweight children' and 'very good teeth' (AoS comment)(August 9th)
- The BMJ: Should obesity be recognised as a disease? (August 7th)
- The Guardian: Fast-food outlets on commuter routes may fuel obesity crisis (August 7th)
- BBC News: Brexit: Food industry seeks no-deal competition waiver (August 7th)
- Action on Sugar and Action on Salt: Call for a Levy on Manufacturers to Reduce Excessive Calories in Unhealthy Food (August 7th)
- The Telegraph: Fast-food customers can be 'tricked' into choosing healthier options by switching menu order, study finds (August 5th)
- The Sun: Most parents admit they don’t have a clue what they should feed their kids (August 5th)
- The Daily Mirror: Cadbury set to slash calorie limits of chocolate bars in bid to tackle obesity (August 5th)
- BBC News: Scottish sports centres ban energy drinks for children (August 4th)
- Food Navigator: ‘Bolder actions’ required to tackle obesity: Are food taxes and subsidies the answer? (August 2nd)
- Public Health England: Saturated fats and health: SACN report (August 1st)
July
- The Daily Mail: How a supermarket SHOULD look: Public health experts release blueprint of ideal layout that would 'help tackle obesity' (July 26th)
- Food Navigator: Obesity Campaigners Fear New UK Prime Minister will Bury Obesity Proposals (AoS comment) (26th July)
- The Independent: Marks & Spencer and Tesco are serving children unhealthy and unsustainable meals, according to a nationwide analysis (24th July)
- Nutrition Insight: Industry applauds UK government move to ban under-16 energy drink sales (July 23rd)
- Action on Sugar: Response to release of the Prevention Green Paper (23rd July)
- The Daily Mirror: Starbucks, Costa and McDonald's selling iced coffees with two days worth of sugar (AoS comment) (July 20th)
- Eating Better Alliance: Better by half: A roadmap to less and better meat and dairy (July 18th)
- The Telegraph: Obesity should be classed as a disease to remove the stigma it is 'self-inflicted' medics say (July 17th)
- The Sun: Health Secretary to ban sale of energy drinks to all children under 16 — putting him on a fresh collision course with Boris Johnson (July 17th)
- The Washington Post: Latin America’s war on obesity could be a model for U.S. (July 16th)
- The Guardian: True cost of cheap food is health and climate crises, says commission (July 16th)
- WHO: WHO/Europe studies find baby foods are high in sugar and inappropriately marketed for babies (July 15th)
- The Times: Baby food crammed with sugar breaks health advice (July 14th)
- The Daily Mail: The number of under-25s with Type 2 diabetes doubles in five years amid obesity epidemic (13th July)
- British Medical Journal: Sugary drink consumption and risk of cancer (AoS comment) (July 11th)
- BBC News: Are sugary drinks causing cancer? (July 11th)
- The Morning Advertiser: ‘No one noticed’ changes made after soft drink levy (July 8th)
- The Guardian: Behold, the new nanny-free state. Cheap pop for all and no one to say it’s bad for us (July 7th)
- The Guardian: Graham MacGregor says all the evidence suggests taxing unhealthy foods helps reduce their consumption (AoS comment)(July 7th)
- Channel 4 News: Boris Johnson announces a sugar tax review – but there’s already one underway (July 4th)
- Action on Sugar: Action on Salt and Action on Sugar respond to Boris Johnson's proposed review of 'sin taxes'
(July 3rd) - Sky News: Obesity causes more cases of some cancers than smoking (July 3rd)
- The Daily Mail: 'You can't out-run a bad diet, Boris': Johnson backs down after sparking fury from health experts by declaring war on 'sin taxes' and sugar levy - saying people should just go for a jog (July 3rd)
- The Guardian: Boris Johnson’s cynical ‘sin-tax’ freeze is a glimpse of what’s to come (July 3rd)
June
- The Sun: MILK TAKE The Government is planning a ‘milkshake tax’ to tackle childhood obesity (June 28th)
- Public Health England: Commercial infant and baby food and drink: evidence review (AoS comment)(June 27th)
- BBC News: Leon restaurant co-founder Henry Dimbleby to lead food system review (June 27th)
- The Scotsman: ‘Legislation needed’ to tackle amount of sugar Scots are buying in special offers (June 25th)
- The Times: Multi-buy chocolate bars ‘fuelling obesity epidemic’ (June 25th)
- BBC News: Child obesity drive 'stalled by Brexit' (June 25th)
- Just Drinks: Heineken UK cuts sugar from cider brands, adds calorie info (AoS comment) (June 20th)
- Food Navigator: Protein-rich doughnuts, ice cream and chocolate bulk up confectionery sector (AoS comment)(June 19th)
- The Scottish Herald: Letters: The proposed deposit return could exacerbate our obesity and diabetes problems (June 17th)
- Food Manufacture: Sugar tax to ‘set precedent’ for whole industry (June 14th)
- Politics Home: Food for Thought: The pitfalls of the Childhood Obesity Plan (June 14th)
- The Evening Standard: Traffic light alerts can help us cut down sugary drinks (June 13th)
- Health Awareness UK: Weight Management campaign (June 11th)
- The Daily Mirror: Dr Miriam Stoppard: We must tackle food producers on obesity (June 10th)
- The Independent: Regular poor-quality sleep can have a negative impact on dietary choices (June 10th)
- Action on Sugar/Action on Salt release: Professor Graham MacGregor is awarded a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list for 2019 (June 10th)
- The Herald: Three quarters of Scots back pre-watershed TV junk food ad ban to curb child obesity (June 6th)
- The Scotsman: Watershed at 9pm for junk food adverts supported by Scots (June 6th)
- Obesity Action Scotland: Public Support for Restricting Junk Food Adverts (June 6th)
- Action on Sugar/Action on Salt & Children's Food Campaign Release: Call for Ban on Using Cartoon Animations on-pack to Market Unhealthy Products to Children (June 4th)
- The Guardian: Science institute that advised EU and UN 'actually industry lobby group' (June 3rd)
- The Guardian: Austerity to blame for 130,000 ‘preventable’ UK deaths – report
(June 1st) - Huffington Post: Exclusive: Free Food Vouchers Not Reaching Poor Families, Coalition Of Charities Warn (June 1st)
May
- Food Navigator: Sugar vs fat reduction in cakes and biscuits: ‘It’s not one or the other’ (June 3rd)
- BBC News: Chief medical officer considers recommending tax on unhealthy food
(May 30th) - The Telegraph: Obesity has become 'the new smoking' and will fuel weight-related cancers, head of NHS warns (May 30th)
- The Daily Mail: Ministers launch an urgent review into childhood obesity in the UK in hope of HALVING levels of overweight youngsters over the next decade (May 30th)
- BBC News: Ultra-processed food linked to early death (May 30th)
- The Daily Mail: Guzzling two large energy drinks within an hour is dangerous for the heart 'because it raises blood pressure and affects the organ's rhythm' (May 29th)
- ABC News: Energy drinks may have unintended health risks (May 29th)
- New Research: New study highlights the need to reduce fat as well as sugar in the main sources of sugar in the UK diet (28th May)
- Apple Podcasts: Food For Thought: How To Break Sugar Addiction (Featuring Dr Kawther Hashem-AoS)(May 27th)
- The Scotsman: Children from disadvantaged backgrounds and ethnic minorities ‘do less exercise’ (May 28th)
- The Telegraph: From fruit juice to honey, the truth about 'healthy' sugars (May 26th)
- The Scotsman: Scottish hospitals to ban high-energy drink sales to under-16s (May 25th)
- BBC Sounds: The Food Chain:Bitter Sweets (May 23rd)
- The Guardian: Three-quarters of food bought in UK hospitals is unhealthy, audit shows (May 22nd)
- Food Navigator: 'Don't drink fruit juice' Consumers told (AoS comment)(May 21st)
- Beverage Daily: UK Sugar Tax: Historic sales shift to sugar-free (May 21st)
- Food Active: Deliveroo dishes out junk food deals to the obese – Food Active response (May 20th)
- The Daily Mail: The so-called healthy smoothies that contain EIGHT TIMES more sugar than a Krispy Kreme doughnut (AoS comment) (May 17th)
- The Independent: Big tobacco secretly bankrolling anti-NHS think tank whose bosses donate thousands to Tory leadership contenders, an investigation reveals (AoS comment) (May 16th)
- ShareAction: ShareAction expands with new programme on food and health (AoS comment) (May 15th)
- Bloomberg: Rotting Teeth and Fatty Organs Turn Australians Sour on Sugar (May 14th)
- The Times: Deliveroo dishes up junk food deals to the obese (May 12th)
- Public Health Engalnd: Reduction and reformulation programme: Spring 2019 update (May 10th)
- The Daily Mail: Takeaways, small restaurants and greasy spoon cafes will be spared having to list calorie counts on their menus (May 10th)
- The Guardian: Obesity-related hospital admissions in England rise by 15% (May 8th)
- The Guardian: The Guardian view on the obesity crisis: ideological posturing will not help (May 6th)
- The Daily Mail: Damning proof there’s no such thing as a ‘healthy’ fizzy drink: Controversial link with cancer and how a fifth of our sugar is from drinks (AoS commnet) (May 6th)
- BMJ News Analysis: What’s behind reduced child obesity in Leeds? (May 3rd)
- I News: Childhood obesity: why Leeds offers hope that Britain might one day no longer be the ‘fat man of Europe’ (May 3rd)
- The Express: Food for thought: Diet initiative in Leeds has reversed the city's obesity problem (May 2nd)
- The Guardian: Risk of obesity can be accurately predicted in babies, study finds (May 2nd)
- The Sun: Nine in ten toddlers are consuming too much sugar, warns the new Public Health Minister (May 2nd)
- The Telegraph: 12 signs to predict if your baby will be overweight by age 10 (May 2nd)
- Action on Sugar: Consumers misled on honey and so-called healthier syrups (May 2nd)
- The Guardian: Leeds becomes first UK city to lower its childhood obesity rate (May 1st)
- The Guardian: Cutting obesity would slash number of early deaths, research finds (May 1st)
April
- University of Glasgow:Social media influencers give bad diet and fitness advice eight times out of nine (April 30th)
- The Guardian: Severely obese people in middle age 50% more likely to die early, study finds (April 29th)
- BBC News: Obesity: Study of 2.8 million shows increased disease and death risks (April 29th)
- The Grocer: Sugar concerns, CBD and the rise of the treat mentality: 10 charts explaining UK attitudes to soft drinks (April 29th)
- I News: Obese children put at risk because parents turn a blind eye to their weight problem (April 28th)
- BBC News: Obesity and depression 'hand-in-hand' in children (April 28th)
- The Daily Mail: Food giants will cause thousands of needless cases of diabetes, heart disease and bowel cancer if they fail to hit Government's sugar reduction targets, academics warn (AoS comment) (April 17th)
- Circulation: Cost-Effectiveness of the US Food and Drug Administration Added Sugar Labelling Policy for Improving Diet and Health (April 15th)
- British Baker: Four lessons from the 2019 BSB spring conference (April 15th)
- Food Manufacture: Soft drinks levy does industry a favour (April 15th)
- The Sun: Cinemas slammed for ‘fuelling obesity’ as kids consume a WEEK’s worth of sugar from a few snacks (AoS comment) (April 14th)
- Food Ingredients First: UK sugar tax one year on: Have levies played a role in accelerating health trends? (AoS comment) (April 12th)
- The Guardian: Experts warn of fatty liver disease 'epidemic' in young people (April 12th)
- The Times: Ban free desserts from children’s menus, say experts (April 8th)
- The National: How the food industry lobbies against government health bans (April 7th)
- The Times: ‘Manipulative’ health claims fuel childhood obesity (April 5th)
- BBC News:The diets cutting one in five lives short every year (April 4th)
- The Lancet: Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis forthe Global Burden of Disease Study (April 4th)
- Public Health England: Figures show increasing numbers of amputations due to diabetes (April 2nd)
- The Times: Ban sugary cereal deals to cut obesity, ministers told (April 1st)
- The Daily Mail: One new case of Type 2 diabetes every THREE MINUTES as obesity boom drives a 'frightening' increase in the disease (April 1st)
- Food Navigator: Colour coding for sugar reduction: Sri Lanka next to implement traffic light labelling system for packaged foods (April 1st)
March
- The Guardian: Supermarket special offers contribute to obesity, says report (March 27th)
- Cancer Research UK: Paying the Price Report (AoS comment) (March 27th)
- Metro: Children ‘should be weighed from the age of two to avoid childhood obesity’ (March 26th)
- The Mirror: One breakfast snack can contain a third MORE than recommended daily sugar intake (AoS comment) (March 25th)
- The Sun: Easter warning over hot cross buns that contain up to 25g of sugar — a whole day’s worth for a child (AoS comment) (March 25th)
- The Mirror: Chains selling 'dangerous' sugary snacks open more and more outlets in UK (AoS comment) (March 25th)
- The Royal Gazette (Bermuda): Chocolate bars to be hit with 75% sugar tax (March 23rd)
- Food Navigator: Food companies find government plans to ban junk food ads hard to stomach (March 19th)
- I News: Tom Watson urges McDonald’s to cancel Monopoly 2019 and calls it a ‘public health danger’ (March 17th)
- Politics Home: Junk food advertising could be banned before 9pm in bid to tackle childhood obesity (March 17th)
- Sky News: Junk food ads on social media and TV could be banned before 9pm to fight obesity (March 17th)
- Science Direct: The caries-related cost and effects of a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (March 16th)
- The Daily Mail: Junk food companies target millions of children by using a loophole in advertising regulations, experts warn (March 14th)
- The Telegraph:Children face growing deluge of junk food ads online, public health experts warn (March 14th)
- World Health Organisation: New WHO study shows more action needed to monitor and limit digital marketing of unhealthy products to children (March 13th)
- Metro: Working mums are to blame for the UK’s childhood obesity epidemic, a new study has claimed (March 10th)
- BBC News: Severely obese Welsh children numbers reach 1,000, figures show (March 7th)
- The Independent: Cadbury Freddo advertisements banned for targeting children (March 6th)
- British Baker: Mr Kipling expands lower-sugar cake slices range (March 4th)
- The Telegraph: Junk food TV adverts will be banned before 9pm to tackle child obesity (March 3rd)
February
- The Daily Mail: Ban ALL junk food adverts on TV, social media, digital billboards and video games before 9pm (February 28th)
- The Telegraph: One in 10 over 40s has diabetes, amid doubling in numbers with the condition (February 26th)
- Action on Sugar: Children’s Breakfast Cereals STILL Shockingly High in Sugar (February 26th)
- The Independent: Record numbers living with diabetes in UK with 4.7 million at risk of amputations and blindness, charity warns (February 26th)
- Evening Standard: Jamie Oliver: TfL’s junk food ad ban is a leap forward for children (Febriyary 25th)
- BBC News: London transport network junk food advert ban starts (February 25th)
- The Telegraph: I was horrified to find out how much sugar is in my family's 'healthy' diet (February 22nd)
- Food Research Collaboration: Sugar reduction in post-Brexit UK: A supply-side policy agenda
(AoS comment)(February 21st) - The Times: Politics: Use Brexit to reduce sugar intake, urge experts (February 21st)
- The I Newspaper: High protein, reduced sugar Mars and Snickers bars have been created for chocolate-loving fitness enthusiasts (AoS comment) (February 21st )
- The Guardian: European health report finds Britain has highest mortality rate of countries studied (February 20th)
- The Times:Type 2 diabetes: the horrifying reality of Britain’s hidden health epidemic (February 17th)
- The Daily Mail: Man, 21, SNAPPED four of his front teeth biting into an apple after ‘guzzling six Monster Energy drinks a day’ and now needs 24 FILLINGS (February 13th)
- BBC News: Food industry warns Gove on Brexit 'crisis' (February 11th)
- The Guardian: Study links heavily processed foods to risk of earlier death (February 11th)
- The Daily Mail: Watching TV has a greater link to obesity than other sitting activities like video games (February 12th)
- BBC News: Sweets industry stands firm against sugar backlash (February 10th)
- New Food: Food labelling changes after Brexit (AoS Comment) (February 6th)
- Food Navigator: UK challenges drinking yoghurt industry to cut sugar by 20% (February 5th)
- BBC News: Obesity-related cancers rise for younger US generations, study says (February 4th)
- Food Standards Agency: Public Attitudes Tracker survey results published (February 4th)
- SALON: New emails reveal CDC employees were doing the bidding of Coca-Cola (February 1st)
January
- The Independent: Labour vows to ban ‘irresponsible’ cartoon characters on sugary cereals to tackle child obesity crisis (January 30th)
- The Guardian: Take on food industry to beat malnutrition and obesity, says report (January 27th)
- The Daily Express: Drinks packed with sugar leave vegans feeling bitter (AoS comment) (January 27th)
- The Sun: Costa Coffee under fire for packing vegan drinks with EIGHT teaspoons of sugar (AoS comment) (January 27th)
- The Guardian: Consumers urged to give up sugary drinks for Fizz Free February (25th January)
- Public Health England: National Diet and Nutrition Survey: time trend and income analyses for Years 1 to 9 (23rd January)
- BBC News: How diet is changing - the good and the bad (January 23rd)
- The Daily Mail: Are children finally turning down sugary drinks? Official data reveals number of youngsters consuming them has dropped by a THIRD in nearly a decade (AoS comment) (January 23rd)
- The Times: Pupils will count sugar cubes in maths to cut obesity (January 21st)
- The Daily Mail: Takeaway customers ordering with Deliveroo will see meal calories in a drive to encourage healthier eating (January 19th)
- Metro: Obesity is a disease and it is time the government dealt with its real causes (january 19th)
- The Sun: Bitter Cabinet row may force Government to scrap plans for calorie counts on all menus (January 17th)
- Talking Retail: Welsh government’s obesity plan targets energy drinks (January 17th)
- The Guardian: New plant-focused diet would ‘transform’ planet’s future, say scientists (January 16th)
- The New York Post: Junk food ads overwhelmingly target black, Hispanic kids (January 15th)
- CBS News: New school lunch rules could mean more salt, sugar and fat in children's diets (January 14th)
- Food Navigator: UK launches consultation on restricting junk food promotions (AoS comment) (January 14th)
- The Guardian: Nutritionists launch portion size guide to tackle overeating (January 14th)
- The Daily Mail: Supermarkets face ban on sweet-filled 'guilt aisles' in an attempt to help parents resist their children's 'pester-power' (Janaury 12th)
- UK Government: Childhood obesity plan: interactions between modelled policies (January 12th)
- UK Government: Restricting promotions of food linked to childhood obesity: public asked views (January 12th)
- The Independent: Junk food 'two-for-one' deals targeted in fight against obesity (January 12th)
- The Guardian: How to get your daily 30g of fibre (January 11th)
- BBC News: The lifesaving food 90% aren’t eating enough of (January 11th)
- The Guardian: Coca-Cola influences China’s obesity policy, BMJ report says (January 10th)
- The Daily Express: Labour BOMBSHELL: Party vow to slap sugar tax on milkshakes (January 7th)
- The Times: NHS Facebook blitz to target smokers, drinkers and the obese (January 6th)
- Sky News: Anti-smoking strategies could be used to cut obesity, says senior researcher (January 4th)
- The Guardian: Stop adding sugar to our babies' food (January 3rd)
- Sky News: Call for obesity to be reclassified as a disease (January 3rd)
- The Daily Mail: Revealed: British children consume 22 stones of sugar before the age of 10 (AoS comment) (January 2nd)
- Public Health England: 2019 Change4Life Nutrition Campaign (January 2nd)
December
- Action on Sugar Comment: Promotions on food and drinks high in fat, salt or sugar (HFSS) in retailers will be restricted from April 2022 (December 28th)
- The Sun: From Costa to Starbucks – festive coffees contain as much sugar as seven doughnuts (AoS comment) (December 21st)
- Science Focus: Online junk food advertising: Could banning it tackle obesity? (December 14th)
- Social Market Foundation: Obesity and coronavirus – where next for policy? (December 13th)
- The Guardian: Boris Johnson’s drive to cut obesity rates ‘largely ineffective’ (December 12th)
- Public Health England: NDNS results from years 9 to 11 (2016 to 2017 and 2018 to 2019) (AoS comment) (December 11th)
- Beverage Daily: Could warning labels on soda reduce consumption? (December 8th)
- Better Food Journey: BLOG: Food affordability: the danger of the single story (December 8th)
- The Telegraph: More years of obesity associated with higher risk of disease, study finds (December 8th)
- In Your Area: Council spending on child obesity is falling - see how big the problem is with your postcode (December 5th)
November
- BBC News: Covid: Poor public health made pandemic worse - Sally Davies (November 30th)
- The Grocer: Shoppers favour front-of-pack traffic lights over Nutri-Score claims Which? (AoS comment) (November 25th)
- Public Health England: Commercial baby food and drink guidelines consultation (AoS comment) (November 24th)
- The Food Foundation: Plating Up Progress 2020: Pathways for A Healthy, Just and Sustainable Food System During A Global Pandemic (November 20th)
- Global Health Advocacy Incubator: Facing Two Pandemics: How Big Food Undermined Public Health in the Era of COVID-19 (November 17th)
- Food Active: Guest Blog: A spotlight on calories and sugar this Alcohol Awareness Week (November 16th)
- The Times: Dame Sally Davies: obesity scourge led to 50,000 Covid death toll (November 15th)
- Confectionery News: UK set to ban online adverts promoting food high in fat, sugar and salt (AoS comment) (November 11th)
- Plos Medicine: Anticipatory changes in British household purchases of soft drinks associated with the announcement of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy: A controlled interrupted time series analysis (November 12th)
- The Guardian: UK to ban all online junk food advertising to tackle obesity (November 10th)
- Dental Review: Response to Government Consultation on HFSS (AoS comment)(November 10th)
- UK Government Release: New public consultation on total ban of online advertising for unhealthy foods (November 10th)
- Policy Exchange: Saving a lost decade - How a new deal for public health can help build a healthier nation (November 10th)
- Evening Standard: Coca-Cola Christmas truck tour cancelled for first time in a decade (November 9th)
- The Grocer: A new sugar tax? The Dairymen drinks category report 2020 (AoS comment) (November 5th)
- The Daily Mail: UK teenage girls are the most overweight in Europe, a study highlighting soaring childhood obesity shows (November 5th)
- Huff Post: Charities And Unions Urge Gavin Williamson To Fund Free School Meals Over Christmas (November 5th)
October
- National Child Measurement Programme: National Child Measurement Programme, England 2019/20 School Year (October 29th)
- Springer Link: Ultra-processed food consumption and risk of obesity: a prospective cohort study of UK Biobank (October 18th)
- The Guardian: Quarter of a million sign Marcus Rashford's free school meals petition (October 17th)
- Sky News: Marcus Rashford 'won't accept any less' as school meals petition races past 200,000 names (October 16th)
- The Telegrpah: Obesity 'fuelling' Covid-19 deaths in Britain and globally, Lancet disease study finds (October 15th)
- The Scotsman: Heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic lung disease and diabetes cause two thirds of all deaths in Scotland (October 15th)
- The Sun: Covid-19 deaths fuelled by ‘perfect storm’ of obesity and social inequality, major study finds (October 15th)
- Food Navigator USA: Steaz hit with lawsuit over ‘lightly sweetened’ claims on beverages featuring 20g added sugar (October 12th)
- Confectionary News: Confectionery in UK government’s firing line as only 3% sugar cut out from food products in three years, PHE finds (October 12th)
- Action on Sugar and Action on Salt: Action on Salt and Sugar October Newsletter (October 12th)
- Express and Star: Government’s voluntary sugar reduction plan heading for failure (AoS comment) (October 7th)
- Public Health England: Sugar reduction: report on progress between 2015 and 2019 (October 7th)
- The Guardian: Subway bread is not bread, Irish court rules (October 1st)
September
- Open Access Government: Defining ‘healthy’ food advertising ahead of the 9pm watershed (AoS comment) (September 29th)
- The New Yorker: The Race to Redesign Sugar (September 21st)
- The Grocer: Children’s cereals getting less sugary, report finds (September 21st)
- Action on Sugar and Action on Salt Release: Breakfast cereals with packaging that may appeal to children (September 21st)
- The Food Foundation: The Broken Plate Report (September 21st)
- Action on Sugar Release: Experts Call for Honest Labelling on So-Called ‘Healthy’ Fruit Snacks Loaded with Sugars and Misleading Claims (September 16th)
- The Grocer: Confectionery cops a curveball: sugar category report 2020 (AoS Comment) (September 11th)
- NCD Alliance and Spectrum Research Consortium Report: Signalling Virtue, Promoting Harm (September 10th)
- The Telegraph: Government 'urged to act with greater urgency' after report reveals the war on sugar is failing (September 9th)
- The Guardian: England will miss 2030 target to halve childhood obesity, says report (September 9th)
- National Audit Office Report: Childhood Obesity (September 9th)
- BBC News: Child obesity action 'risks losing its way' (September 9th)
- The Times: Losing weight: Why wine is so bad for your diet (AoS Comment) (September 8th)
- The Times: Curries and pizzas may shrink under calorie-reduction goals to tackle obesity (AoS Comment) (September 8th)
- Action on Sugar Comment: Public Health England publish new calorie reduction targets (September 7th)
- Wales Online: Iceland to give away free frozen vegetables (September 4th)
- Dorset Echo: Government launches national diet strategy (AoS Comment) (September 3rd)
- Action on Smoking and Health: Joint statement to the Government of Public Health England reorganisation (September 2nd)
- The Guardian: Health leaders warn Boris Johnson over axing of Public Health England (September 2nd)
- The Telegraph: Britons more likely to 'fat-shame' obese people than Americans (September 2nd)
- BBC News: Shake diet offered on NHS to fight type 2 diabetes (September 1st)
- The Guardian: Marcus Rashford takes aim at child food poverty with new taskforce (September 1st)
August
- IPPR: Report on Childhood Health (August 27th)
- Alcohol Health Alliance & Alcohol Focus Scotland Release: Drinking in the dark: How alcohol labelling fails consumers (August 26th)
- The Daily Mail: One child under five is admitted to hospital because of obesity every week, shocking NHS figures show (AoS comment) (August 23rd)
- The Mirror: Shocking toll of sugary drinks on kids' teeth revealed by extraction figures (August 22nd)
- The Telegraph: Parents 'tricked' into buying sugary children's snacks promoted as healthy, campaigners claim (AoS comment) (August 22nd)
- Mediatel: Jan Gooding: To ban or not to ban? (August 19th)
- Action on Sugar Comment: Closure of Public Health England (August 18th)
- The Grocer: What will be the impact of the HFSS clampdown? (AoS comment) (August 14th)
- The Guardian: UK's poorest 'skip meals and go hungry' during coronavirus crisis (August 14th)
- Food Manufacture: Sector pressed on obesity and healthy eating cost (August 10th)
- The Guardian: Poverty causes obesity. Low-income families need to be better off to eat well (August 9th)
- The Independent: Coronavirus: Obese people may be told to stay home if second wave hits (August 9th)
- INewspaper: ‘Nanny state’ criticisms of the obesity strategy are as misguided as climate change deniers and anti-vaxxers (August 6th)
- The Guardian: Mexico state bans sale of sugary drinks and junk food to children (August 6th)
July
- The Guardian: Percy Pig packaging 'wilfully misleading', says obesity campaign (July 29th)
- The Guardian: Huge growth in free school meals urged to tackle food poverty crisis (July 29th)
- BBC News: Unhealthy diets are ‘slow-motion disaster’ (July 29th)
- National Food Strategy: Part 1 of National Food Strategy (July 29th)
- Retail Gazette: Are grocers doing enough to combat obesity? (AoS comment) (July 28th)
- Beverage Daily: UK government to launch consultation on alcohol calorie labelling (July 27th)
- Huff Post: Firms Could Slash Sugar And Salt From Products To Keep 'BOGOF' Discounts, Health Minister Says (July 27th)
- The Telegraph: Sugar taxes not ruled out as government says 'further action' will be taken if no results seen (July 27th)
- UK Government Release: New Obesity Strategy unveiled as country urged to lose weight to beat COVID-19 and protect the NHS (July 27th)
- The Evening Standard: UK 'to ban junk food advertising online and on TV before 9pm' (AoS comment) (July 24th)
- The Times: Ad boss Sir John Hegarty calls for 9pm junk-food watershed (July 23rd)
- The Independent: I’m worried about Boris Johnson’s plan to tackle obesity – the government cannot abandon its responsibility to the public (July 23rd)
- The Daily Mail: McDonald's has announced it will reopen around 700 dine-in restaurants across the UK (AoS comment)(July 21st)
- The Telegraph: Boris Johnson could solve Britain’s obesity crisis - but not without restricting sugar consumption (July 20th)
- The Telegraph: Weight loss surgery drive to tackle obesity (July 19th)
- The Guardian: The Observer view on the UK's shocking obesity levels (July 19th)
- The Independent: Tory-voting ‘red wall’ areas have most to lose from a flawed obesity strategy, analysis reveals (July 19th)
- The Telegraph: Savoury baby foods are increasingly sugary as number of 'snacks' for infants grows (July 17th)
- INewspaper: Cadbury owner Mondelez accused of shrinkflation over smaller multi-pack chocolate bars (AoS comment) (July 17th)
- Food Navigator: Pester power: ‘Peppa Pig, Disney, and Star Wars have no place on unhealthy food and drink’ (July 17th)
- Action on Sugar and Action on Salt Release: Keeping Score as Leading Experts Evaluate Progress of the Obesity Prevention Plans and Urge the Government to Ban Junk Food Ads Before 9pm (July 15th)
- Daily Mail: Rishi deals another blow to Boris' get-fit plan for Britain: Fast-food fans can buy a KFC bucket meal for just £5 (AoS comment)(July 14th)
- Confectionery News: UK supermarkets under pressure to cease impulse purchases of chocolate and sweets (July 13th)
- The Independent: Boris Johnson moves to ban junk food discount deals to fight obesity (AoS comment) (July 11th)
- Marketing Week: Junk food promotions to be banned in healthy eating drive (AoS comment) (July 10th)
- Brinkwire: ‘A green light for junk food’: Obesity campaigners blast Eat Out to Help Out scheme (AoS comment) (July 13th)
- Daily Mail: Rishi's junk food subsidy: Obesity campaigners blast Sunak's 'Eat Out' scheme launched on SAME day government told Britons to lose weight or risk Covid this winter... as Burger King cuts price of Whoppers in HALF (AoS comment) (July 9th)
- UK Government: Chancellor gives diners 50% off on eating out (July 8th)
- The Scotsman: UK food industry is ‘barrier to healthy eating’ (July 6th)
- The Grocer: Government urged to clamp down on unhealthy foods by new report (July 6th)
- Select Committee on Food, Poverty, Health and the Environment: Hungry for change: fixing the failures in food (July 6th)
- Newsletter: Action on Sugar and Salt July 2020 Newsletter (July 3rd)
- Food Manufacture: Mondelēz shrinks Cadbury confectionery but obesity charity favours reformulation (July 1st)
June
- The Times: Boris Johnson urged to curb TV junk food ads in fight against obesity (June 29th)
- The Times: Britain’s childhood obesity crisis made worse by lockdown (June 28th)
- Food Navigator: ‘Health is emerging as a key investment risk’: Investors urge Tesco to adopt targets promoting healthy food (June 26th)
- Food Manufacturer: Boredom sparks decline in healthy eating (June 22nd)
- The Daily Express: Britons are now officially FATTER than pigs after huge increase in average weight (AoS comment) (June 22nd)
- Circulation, AHA Journal: Health Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of Volume, Tiered, and Absolute Sugar Content SugarSweetened Beverage Tax Policies in the United States: A Microsimulation Study (June 22nd)
- The Guardian: Government attacked for ignoring expert advice on nutrition in food parcels (June 21st)
- Confectionery News: UK convenience retail market to grow 8% in 2020, says new report (June 18th)
- Food Navigator: Sugar reformulation: How are big brands innovating to cut the sweet stuff? (June 17th)
- The Daily Mail: Child health experts warn of devastating long-term effects on pupils (June 14th)
- Food Navigator: Unilever eyes potential in wellness: ‘We are uniquely positioned to lead purposefully in the space of holistic health and immunity’ (June 12th)
- Food Navigator Podcast: The FoodNavigator Podcast: Sugar reformulation part 1: Why reducing by stealth is key (AoS comment) (June 12th)
- The Scotsman: Bill to curb junk food promotions scrapped by government amid fears for food industry (June 11th)
- Action on Sugar Release: Food Industry Must Share Blame for Both the Obesity Pandemic AND Severity of COVID-19 Disease – according to an Editorial published in the BMJ (June 10th)
- The Sun: Starbucks’ Ruby Flamingo Frappuccino contains nearly 14 teaspoons of sugar — twice an adult’s daily allowance (AoS comment) (June 9th)
- Food Navigator: Coronavirus lockdown found to worsen childhood obesity: 'The excess weight gained may not be easily reversible' (June 5th)
- BBC News: Coronavirus: Court action threatened over school meal vouchers (June 5th)
- Nutrition Insight:COVID-19 and obesity: Nutrition community responds to PHE review (AoS comment) (June 4th)
- New Statesman: Childhood obesity is rising – and the link to inequality is clearer than ever (June 4th)
- Circulation, Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes: Health and Economic Impacts of the National Menu Calorie Labeling Law in the United States (June 4th)
- The Mirror: Government confirms free school meals scheme won't continue over summer holiday (June 4th)
- Open Access Government: Reducing obesity and improving health during the COVID-19 pandemic (AoS comment) (June 4th)
- Public Health England: National child measurement programme (NCMP): trends in child BMI (Aos comment) (June 4th)
- Daily Mail: Obese children hospitalized with coronavirus are THREE TIMES more likely to need ventilators, study finds (June 3rd)
- Food Manufacture: Coronavirus: Obesity link reignites calls for access to healthy foods (AoS comment) (June 3rd)
- The Guardian: Obesity and coronavirus: how can a higher BMI increase your risk? (June 3rd)
- The Grocer: Campaign groups renew calls for clampdown on marketing of unhealthy food and drink (AoS comment) (June 3rd)
- Confectionary Production: Campaigners present UK government with plans tackling obesity amid coronavirus pandemic (AoS comment) (June 2nd)
- BBC News: Coronavirus: Tackling obesity 'must be part of recovery plan' (June 2nd)
- Public Health England: COVID-19: review of disparities in risks and outcomes (June 2nd)
- Confectionery News: Kerry launches ‘TasteSense Sweet Suitable for Organic’ in preparation for EU regulations (June 1st)
- Confectionery News: Nestlé’s confectionery ‘essentials’ now available through Deliveroo in UK (June 1st)
- The Telegraph: Is NHS-funded weight loss surgery really a 'quick fix' for coronavirus? (June 1st)
May
- Daily Mail: Dear Boris... Opening the floodgates to food that would be illegal here betrays our farmers and our children: JAMIE OLIVER joins Mail on Sunday's campaign to save our family farms with a passionate open letter to PM (May 30th)
- Action on Salt & Action on Sugar Release: Experts Call for Immediate Government Intervention on Obesity to Help Prevent Further Deaths from COVID-19 (May 29th)
- Metro: Over 100 doctors call for tax on junk food to handle obesity epidemic (May 27th)
- Food Service Footprint: WHAT’S ON HOLD DUE TO COVID-19? (May 25th)
- The Times: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall: now is the PM’s best chance to crack down on junk food (May 24th)
- Action on Sugar/Action on Salt & Children's Food Campaign Release: Junk Food Brand Drops Advertising to Kids During Lockdown to Avoid Formal Regulatory Investigation (May 21st)
- PLOS Medicine: Sugary drink warnings: A meta-analysis of experimental studies (May 20th)
- The Express: Junk food tax will help the Prime Minister's new 'war on fat' (May 17th)
- The Express: Boris Johnson to launch anti-obesity drive after coronavirus scare (May 16th)
- The Times: Boris Johnson to launch war on fat after coronavirus scare (May 15th)
- Food Navigator: ‘School is a really good place to tackle childhood obesity’: Study measures impact of free school meals on obesity rates (May 15th)
- The Grocer: Letters: There’s a pandemic on, let’s cut out the unhealthy food and drink ads (AoS comment) (May 15th)
- Food Navigator: Campaigners call for junk food and drink advertising ban as British PM hints at interventionism to tackle obesity (AoS comment) (May 15th)
- New Food Magazine: Action on Sugar and Action on Salt call for unhealthy advertising ban during lockdown (AoS comment)(May 14th)
- Food Navigator: Beyond sugar and salt reformulation: The case for ‘positive nutrition’ targets to help curb obesity (May 13th)
- Global Nutrition Report: 2020 Global Nutrition Report (AoS comment) (May 12th)
- Campaign: Health campaign groups call for halt on 'unhealthy' ads until end of lockdown (AoS comment)(May 7th)
- Dentistry: Action on Sugar says UK’s oral health likely to worsen following COVID-19 (AoS comment) (May 7th)
- Confectionary Production: Industry stalling on Public Health England targets for confectionery sugar reduction (AoS comment) (May 6th)
April
- New Food: Sugar reformulation: sweet but not so simple (April 29th)
- The Times: Stirling University team leads call for greater clarity on 'confusing' junk food adverts (April 19th)
- The Guardian: Millions in UK having to choose between paying rent and eating, poll suggests (April 13th)
March
- The Guardian: Diet, health, inequality: why Britain's food supply system doesn't work (March 22nd)
- The House: Supermarkets can be our allies in tackling the childhood obesity timebomb (March 20th)
- Packaging Gateway: Pester power: protecting children from junk food marketing (March 11th)
- New Food: Protecting consumers with front of pack labelling-Mhairi Brown, Action on Sugar (March 6th)
- The Guardian: Free school dinners ‘led to fall in childhood obesity rates’ (March 8th)
- The Express: Study reveals the shocking amount of sugar the average child will consume in a year (March 4th)
- The Guardian: UK in danger of failing a generation, says child health study (March 4th)
- Share Action: Spotlight on supermarkets: The role of retailers in tackling childhood obesity (March 4th)
- The Guardian: UK in danger of failing a generation, says child health study (March 4th)
- Daily Mail: Calling overweight people fat or lazy must stop (March 3rd)
- Good Food (AU):Junk on demand: Food delivery giants bring salt and sugar within arms' reach (March 1st)
February
- ABC News: Teens 'especially vulnerable' to junk food advertising, experts say (February 28th)
- Bakery & Snacks: Sugar in the spotlight: The tax and the new Nutrition Facts label (AoS comment) (February 27th)
- Daily Mail: KitKat launches a HEALTHY version of its iconic chocolate bar (February 25th)
- Food Standards Agency: Biannualy Attitude Tracker (February 25th)
- The Guardian: Two million in UK at risk of type 2 diabetes as obesity crisis grows (February 24th)
- The Independent: National Trust pulls Cadbury Easter egg hunt (February 22nd)
- Food Navigator: Junk food advertising: WHO calls for legally binding treaty to end ‘predatory commercial practices’ (AoS comment) (February 21st)
- The Sun: Politicians call for supermarkets to put sweets on top shelf to tackle childhood obesity (February 20th)
- INews: Eating a big breakfast can help overcome obesity and high blood sugar levels (February 19th)
- The Lancet: A future for the world’s children? A WHO–UNICEF–Lancet Commission (AoS comment) (February 19th)
- Seattle Times: Sweetened-beverage sales in Seattle dropped 30% after soda tax (February 18th)
- Talking Retail: Sugar levels in UK soft drinks lowered, research finds (AoS comment) (February 12th)
- BBC News: Food giant to stop advertising ice cream to children (February 12th)
- The Guardian: Chile's drastic anti-obesity measures cut sugary drink sales by 23% (February 11th)
- PLOS Medical: Sugar levels in UK soft drinks lowered following government levy (February 11th)
- ITV News: Extra £5.5m funding announced to tackle obesity in Wales (February 6th)
January
- BBC News: Jeremy Hunt wins health role in select committee ballot (January 29th)
- Food Navigator: Israel: ‘New opportunities’ for reformulation as gov’t imposes HFSS warnings front-of-pack (January 27th)
- The Sun: Plant-based foods can pack MORE sugar and salt than meaty originals (January 26th)
- The Guardian: Teenagers campaign for 'traffic light' labels on food packaging (January 25th)
- The Grocer: Cull of the cartoons: cereals category report 2020 (Janaury 24th)
- Mail Online: Campaigners call for junk food ads to be BANNED before 9pm (January 23rd)
- Wired: The UK's war on sugar has stalled (January 22nd)
- The Times: No snack logos on children’s jerseys for the Hundred (January 22nd)
- Action on Sugar: Call for ‘Ready to Drink’ Alcoholic Beverages to be Reduced in Sugar and Calories to Help Curb the Obesity Epidemic (January 21st)
- Huff Post: The Truth Behind Honey's 'Health Halo' – Plus 6 Other Sugar Myths Busted (with comment from our Campaign Director Katharine Jenner) (January 20th)
- I News: Sugar tax drives sharp decrease in sweetness of soft drinks as charities call for milkshakes to be included (January 13th)
- The Daily Mail: Trendy vegan yoghurts and desserts can contain MORE sugar than dairy ones (January 9th)
- The Telegraph: FA set for showdown with government over betting firms and FA Cup streaming deal (January 8th)
- Metro: Asda is removing cartoon characters from cereals to tackle childhood obesity (AoS comment) (January 7th)
- The Mirror: Asda follows Lidl in scrapping cartoons on cereal boxes in fight against obesity (AoS comment) (7th January)
- I News: Planning rules 'fuel obesity' by favouring fast food over gyms, NHS chief warns (January 5th)
- Action on Sugar: Lidl to remove cartoon characters from cereal boxes (January 3rd)
- Mail Online: Child obesity levels have DOUBLED in a decade (January 2nd)
- New Food: The success of the soft drinks sugar tax? (AoS comment) (January 2nd)