Sugar in the news 2014
December
- Sustain: A sugary drinks duty would save London £39m in healthcare costs (16th Dec)
November
- BBC: Call to banish fruit juice from recommended five a day (11th Nov)
- ITV: Over a quarter of fruit juices 'more sugary than Coca-Cola' (11th Nov)
- ITV: Some fruit juices 'have more sugar than Coca-Cola' (11th Nov)
- City AM: Is fruit juice bad for you? Forget the breakfast OJ – many juices contain so much sugar they are a health hazard (11th Nov)
- The Guardian: Some children’s juice drinks have more sugar than Coke (11th Nov)
- Independent: Healthy' fruit juices have dangerous levels of sugar, study shows (11th Nov)
- Mail Online: The fruit smoothies for children with more sugar than Coca-Cola: drinks sold as healthy can contain up to 60% more (11th Nov)
- Metro: So which smoothies have more sugar than Coca-Cola? (11th Nov)
- Mirror: Quarter of 'healthy' fruit juices and smoothies have MORE sugar than Coca-Cola (11th Nov)
- Belfast Telegraph: Many juices 'more sugary than Coke' (11th Nov)
- The Times: Fruit juices ‘too sugary’ for our five a day (11th Nov)
- The Telegraph: Fruit drinks aimed at children contain more sugar than Coca-Cola (11th Nov)
- The Telegraph: How sugary are your children's fruit juices? (11th Nov)
- Boots WebMD: Fruit juices 'should be banned from 5 a day list' (11th Nov)
- Breaking News ie: Study finds many juices 'more sugary than coke' (11th Nov)
- Cosmopolitan: So, does fruit juice count as one of your 5-a-day? (11th Nov)
- Day Nurseries: Hidden sugar content of children's fruit juices revealed (11th Nov)
- Female First: 'Healthy' juices have more sugar than coke (11th Nov)
- Food Navigator: Healthy’ children’s juices and smoothies slammed for high sugar content (11th Nov)
- The Grocer: Action on Sugar claims a quarter of kid’s juice drinks have as much sugar as Coca-Cola (11th Nov)
- Huffington Post: A quarter of fruit juices contain more sugar than fizzy drinks such as Coca Cola, study finds (11th Nov)
- International Business Times: Campaigners call for fruit juice ban from healthy food list over 'more sugar than Coke' (11th Nov)
- netdoctor: How healthy is fruit juice? (11th Nov)
- onmedica: Ban fruit juice to cut down on kids’ daily sugar intake, parents advised (11th Nov)
- Times of India: Juices aimed at children in UK contain more sugar than Coca-Cola (11th Nov)
- Action on Sugar comment:Children's Juices(11th Nov)
October
- The Scotsman: Sugar Puffs rebranded in bid to revive sales (17th Oct)
- BBC: Sugary drinks warning signs change habits of US teens (17th Oct)
- The Grocer: Make Responsibility Deal law, says new obesity report (13th Oct)
September
- Gov.uk: New PHE survey finds 12% of 3 year olds have tooth decay (30th Sep)
- BBC: Tooth decay affects 12% of three-year-olds, says survey (30th Sep)
- The Guardian: If I were king for a day, I would ban Coca-Cola (26th Sep)
- Politico: Soda fight’s last stand (24th Sep)
- UCL: Sugar intake must be slashed further (16th Sep)
- Bakery info: Slash sugar intake further say experts (16th Sep)
- BBC: Sugar intake must be slashed further, say scientists (16th Sep)
- Stylist: 10 ROUTINE CHANGES TO YOUR DIET THAT ARE PROVEN TO MAKE YOU HEALTHIER (15th Sep)
- Express: Sugar, not salt, causes high blood pressure (15th Sep)
- Mail Online: Sugar could be worse for your blood pressure than salt, shock new research reveals (15th Sep)
August
- The Telegraph: Heinz tackles the 'sauce' of UK's obesity problem (31st Aug)
- Mail Online: Aldi bans sweets from checkout displays leaving just M&S refusing to join the drive towards healthier snacks (27th Aug)
July
- Mintel: Soft drinks falling flat? 25% of Brits drinking less than they were six months ago (30th Jul)
- Mintel: Carbonated Soft Drinks (30th Jul)
- The Sunday Times: Rotten teeth put 26,000 children in hospital (13th Jul)
- The Telegraph: EU plans too sweet for health activists (6th Jul)
June
- Confectionery News: The death of kingsize? UK confectioners agree 250 calorie cap (27th Jun)
- Independent ie: British health chiefs considering halving recommended daily intake of sugar (26th Jun)
- BBC: Call to halve target for added sugar (26th Jun)
- Mail Online: Cut sugar to just 5 teaspoons each day: Tough new guidelines... but no help to meet them (26th Jun)
- The Guardian: End this sugar rush – it's the only way to tackle the obesity crisis (26th Jun)
- Express & Star: Sugar guideline 'should be halved' (26th Jun)
- Food Manufacturer: Sugar targets 'counter-productive' in obesity battle (26th Jun)
- The Week: Sugar blamed for UK obesity epidemic: is it really that bad? (26th Jun)
- Nursing Times: Sugar guideline 'should be halved' (26th Jun)
- Diabetes.co.uk: Tax sugar to curb rates of childhood obesity (26th Jun)
- Yorkshire Post: Call to cut sugar in fizzy drinks after ‘shocking’ survey results (12th Jun)
- ITV: Calls for Govt to set sugar reduction targets on fizzy drinks (12th Jun)
- BBC: Calls to cut sugar in fizzy drinks (12th Jun)
- Express: Campaigners demand that a 'limit is set on sugar in fizzy drinks’ (12th Jun)
- The Guardian: How much sugar is in your fizzy drink? (12th Jun)
- The Times: ‘Middle-class’ fizzy drinks contain most sugar (12th Jun)
- Breaking News ie: Research finds 'shockingly high and unnecessary' sugar levels in fizzy drinks (12th Jun)
- ITV: Sugar reduction targets like 'cutting down on salt' (12th Jun)
- The Guardian: Traditional fizzy drinks 'contain more sugar than Coca-Cola' (12th Jun)
- Independent: Two-thirds of ginger beer contains more sugar that Coca-Cola, research warns (12th Jun)
- Mail Online: 'Upmarket' fizzy drinks with more sugar than Coke and Pepsi: Brands of ginger beer and cloudy lemonade have up to four teaspoons more than big brand cola (12th Jun)
- The Telegraph: Upmarket fizzy drinks contain more sugar than Coca-Cola (12th Jun)
- Express: Call for fizzy drinks sugar tax in fight to stem obesity (8th Jun)
- Mail Online: Special report: The truth behind the 'sugar-free' con (8th Jun)
- The Grocer: Department of Health weighs up sugary drinks 'tax' in new talks with industry (6th Jun)
- Time: How sugar went from a condiment to a diet staple (3rd Jun)
May
- Department of Health: Responsibility Deal annual updates 2013/14 published today (30th May)
- The Telegraph: Weightwatchers foods higher in calories than standard ones (30th May)
- Mail Online: 'Put health warnings on sugary drinks': Experts say soft drinks should be treated like cigarettes (28th May)
- Herald Scotland: Call to put warnings on fizzy drinks (28th May)
- Express: Fizzy drinks ‘should have a big health warning like cigarettes’, warns expert (28th May)
- Mail Online: Supermarket ready meals contain up to TEN TEASPOONS of sugar - Sainsbury's worst offender with more than half a day's allowance in just one sweet and sour chicken dinner (18th May)
- Which?: Do you know how much sugar you're eating? (18th May)
- Food Navigator: Sugar has a direct effect on heart disease risk and blood pressure: Meta-analysis (16th May)
- Leicester Mercury: MP Keith Vaz calls for clear labels to show a food's sugar content (15th May)
- The Telegraph: Fruit juice and cereals push children over sugar limits (15th May)
- Gov.uk: New National Diet and Nutrition Survey shows UK population is eating too much sugar, saturated fat and salt (14th May)
- BBC: Poll shows most want sugary drinks banned from UK schools (5th May)
April
- ScienceDirect: Impact of sugar-sweetened beverages on blood pressure (25th Apr)
- The Telegraph: How much sugar is in your 'healthy' cereal bar? (12th Apr)
- Mail Online: What happened when one family went on a sugar-free diet for one year (11th Apr)
- The Telegraph: Fruit juices and smoothies contain 'horrifying' sugar levels (6th Apr)
- Mirror: Low-fat foods contain 20% MORE sugar than their full fat equivalents (6th Apr)
- The Grocer: Fruit juice the target in Waitrose war on sugar (5th Apr)
- The Grocer: Waitrose juice shake-up is a sign of the times (5th Apr)
March
- Sustain: Family TV programmes saturated with junk food ads (21st Mar)
- The Guardian: Big Food is in wilful denial about the harm sugar does to our children (16th Mar)
- Cheshire Today: Call for sugar reduction (14th Mar)
- Food Navigator: Action on Sugar sketches sugar reduction plans (14th Mar)
- The Guardian: Life without sugar: one family's 30-day challenge (14th Mar)
- Nature: Storm brewing over WHO sugar proposal (13th Mar)
- Channel 4: Healthy cynicism: campaigners give up on government food group (13th Mar)
- HSJ: Sugar tax will break the cycle of obesity and diabetes (12th Mar)
- The Sunday Times: Sugar tsar says Britain to snub UN guidelines (9th Mar)
- The Scotsman: Dani Garavelli: Is sugar public enemy No 1? (9th Mar)
- The Telegraph: We must wind back the harms of too much sugar (7th Mar)
- The Telegraph: Low fat foods stuffed with 'harmful’ levels of sugar (7th Mar)
- Mail Online: A lethally sweet relationship: An excoriating attack by a cardiologist on the cosy links between politicians and the food giants, whose refusal to cut sugar levels is causing countless deaths (7th Mar)
- The Telegraph: New sugar limits: 26 'mini health time bombs' (6th Mar)
- The Guardian: Messages about reducing sugar intake unclear, say campaigners (6th Mar)
- Independent: Is sugar the new evil? Arguments for and against the grain (6th Mar)
- Food Navigator: WHO recommends halving sugar intake advice (6th Mar)
- The Telegraph: Sugar rush: The Government needs to do more to encourage people to cut sugar from their diet (5th Mar)
February
- Journal of the American Heart Association: Consumption of less than 10% of total energy from added sugars is associated with increasing HDL in females during adolescence (26th Feb)
- AoS comment: Switch to healthier food and drink choices with the UK’s first ever ‘FoodSwitch’ app (13th Feb)
- NHS Choices: Sugar intake linked to heart disease deaths (4th Feb)
January
- AoS comment: Are top government nutrition advisers ‘Addicted to Sugar’? (21st Jan)
- AoS comment: Worldwide Experts Form AoS(9th Jan)