2017
December
- AoS Release: Energy Drink Manufacturers Reformulate to Avoid Soft Drinks Industry Levy, YET Sugar, Calorie and Caffeine Content Remain at Concerning Levels - BMJ Open Reveals (15th December)
- AoS Comment: AoS Comment: Experts call for age restrictions on the sale of energy drinks (1st December)
November
- AoS Comment: Kellogg's Better Starts Plan Press Release(30th November)
- Obesity Health Alliance: 6 in 10 food adverts during family TV shows push junk food, new study reveals (28th November)
- Evening Standard: 'Install drinking fountains across London': Jamie Oliver launches manifesto for a healthier capital (24th November)
- Food Navigator: Government intervention on food needed to safeguard children's health: report (15th November)
- Action on Sugar Chairman Professor MacGregor wins Sugar Reduction Hero Award! (9th November)
- The Guardian: Choc horror: fans outraged by Nutella's secret recipe change (7th November)
- Birmingham Mail: Why the Coca-Cola Christmas truck tour has been slammed (3rd November)
- The Herald: Health experts criticise Coca-Cola Christmas truck tour (1st November)
October
- The Telegraph: Lucozade (and cactus juice) can be fuel for healthier living (31st October)
- AoS Release: Sugar Awareness Week 2017 Release (31st October)
- NHS: Obesity prevalence increases in reception age primary school children (19th October)
- The Guardian: Will a sugar tax work? Well, it did at Jamie Oliver's Italian restaurants (17th October)
- AoS Comment: NHS targets super-sized chocolate bars in battle against obesity, diabetes and tooth-decay (16th October)
- The Mirror: Super-size snacks to get chop from hospital shops in NHS battle against the bulge (16th October)
- Food Manufacture: Sainsbury calls for standardised food portion sizes (16th October)
- The Telegraph: Coconut water contains hidden sugar, watchdog investigation finds (13th October)
- Waitrose: Waitrose lowers sugar across many family favourite desserts (13th October)
- Food Navigator: Ireland set to introduce sugar sweetened beverage tax in 2018 (11th October)
- The Times: Health adverts can't compete with junk food (11th October)
- AoS Comment: Out to Lunch AoS Comment(11th October)
- Evening Standard: Pizza Hut and TGI Fridays scrap free fizzy drink refills in bid to cut childhood obesity (11th October)
- The Guardian: High-calorie puddings dominate children's menus at food chains (11th October)
- AoS Comment: World Obesity Day (11th October)
- The Telegraph: Calls for war on junk food ads as obesity costs set to rise by 60 per cent (11th October)
- The Guardian: Global cost of obesity-related illness to hit $1.2tn a year from 2025 (10th October)
- The Sun: Sweet and Sour: Anger after Tory conference is sponsored by Tate & Lyle - despite sugar tax to crack down on UK obesity (3rd October)
September
- Nestle: Cereal Partners Worldwide to adopt colour-coded labelling on Nestle breakfast Cereals in the UK(29th September)
- Food Manufacturer: Irn-Bru maker plans more sugar reduction investment (27th September)
- The Irish Times: Ban on high sugar, fat and salt foods ahead for school meals plan (25th September)
- The Lancet: Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 (16th September)
- NICE: More than a million people should be offered lifestyle tips as a way to avoid type 2 diabetes (15th September)
- The Telegraph: Next is selling 'plus size' clothes for children as young as three (14th September)
- The Guardian: Poor diet is a factor in one in five deaths, global disease study reveals (14th September)
- The Times: Social media ads 'grow child obesity rates' (8th September)
- The Spectator: AoS Chairman Professor MacGregor features on The Spectator Podcast: Fat Britannia (7th September)
- RSPH: New report reveals 'upselling' is fuelling the obesity crisis (7th September)
- Blog:How Can We Tackle Childhood Obesity? (6th September)
- Daily Mail: How 'healthy' snacks including Nakd nibbles and Love Raw almond bars have more sugar than chocolate treats (1st September)
August
- Daily Mail: Bottled water sales top cola for the first time: 1.77billion litres of water were sold in 12 months as consumers switch to healthier lifestyles (21st August)
- The Telegraph: Bottled water sales outstrip cola for the first time (19th August)
- Metro: Sales of bottled water overtake fizzy drinks for first time ever (19th August)
- Huffington Post: Time for Britain to stop being the 'fat man' of Europe (18th August)
- AoS comment: One year on PHE childhood obesity plan (17th August)
- The Grocer: A kneejerk reaction isn't responsibility (17th August)
- The Scotsman: Sugary supermarket deals harming Scots' health (10th August)
- PR Week: Jamie Oliver slams government over 'blatant' lack of comms for childhood obesity drive (9th August)
- AoS release: New Research By Action on Sugar Reveals Cereal Manufacturers Are Deliberately Deceiving Shoppers By Using Poor Nutrition Labelling (8th August)
July
- Daily Star: You won't believe the shocking effect sugar has on men (28th July)
- The Times: News + Research: Britons consume up to 50% more sugar than they think (20th July)
- Science Daily: News + Research: Are sugary drink interventions changing people's behaviour(19th July)
- The Independent: News + Research: Artificial sweeteners linked to weight gain, finds new research(17th July)
- AoS Release: Theresa May must act to tackle obesity without delay (5th July)
- Food Navigator: Nestle pledges to cut sugar by 10% in UK breakfast cereals (5th July)
- AoS Comment: Advertising HFSS Ban (1st July)
June
- iNews: Doctors call for sweet packets to have cigarette-style health warnings (27th June)
May
- The Debrief: Ask an adult: How do I stay healthy when I'm fasting for Ramadan? (25th May)
- AoS release: Action on Sugar calls on next Government to extend Sugar Levy to confectionery (12th May)
- Independent: Labour vows to ban junk food adverts during X Factor and Hollyoaks (8th May)
- Daily Mail: 'Healthy' vegetable crisps contain the equivalent of EIGHT spoons of sugar - more than in six chocolate digestives (6th May)
- The Guardian: UK must get tough on childhood obesity, says top doctors (4th May)
April
- Food Manufacturer: Tax on sugary drinks may be extended after review (28th April)
- Food Manufacturer: Sugar tax announcement divides opinion (26th April)
- AoS comment: Parliament approve Soft Drinks Industry Levy (25th April)
- Action on Sugar Chairman Professor Graham MacGregor featured on The Life Scientific, Radio 4 (25th April)
- NHS England: Action to cut sales of sugary drinks (21st April)
- The Guardian: Stroke and dementia risk linked to artificial sweeteners, study suggests (21st April)
- AoS release: New survey reveals chocolate nut spreads contain 57 teaspoons of sugar per jar - that's over four times more sugar than nuts(13th April)
- The Guardian: I've had to remove all of a toddler's teeth. It's time for a war on sugar (10th April)
March
- AoS comment: Nestlé reduce sugar levels in Fruit Pastilles in response to increased pressure (5th April)
- AoS comment: Public Health England, Sugar Reduction: Achieving the 20%(30th March)
- The Telegraph: New 'healthier' KitKat only contains four fewer calories than previous recipe (28th March)
- Health Committee: Child obesity follow up report (27th March)
- The Guardian: Tooth extractions on toddlers rise by a quarter in 10 years (21st March)
- AoS comment:Sugar Tax rates announced in HM Treasury Spring Budget 2017(8th March)
- AoS comment: Nestlé UK & Ireland to strip out 10% of sugar from confectionery range (7th March)
- Food Navigator: Sugar's 'sweet spot' link to Alzheimer's disease discovered (1st March)
- AoS comment: AG Barr to halve sugar content in Irn Bru (1st March)
- AoS comment:Increased risk of 11 types of cancer linked to being overweight, researchers warn (1st March)
February
- Obesity Health Alliance: Children consuming equivalent of 20 chocolate chip biscuits a day in sugar, as food and drink industry urged to reduce sugar (24th Feb)
- Food Navigator: Reformulation rethink in cutting calories gives taste of success (22nd Feb)
- The BMJ: Time for the UK to commit to tackling child obesity (22nd Feb)
- The Guardian: Mexico's sugar tax leads to fall in consumption for second year running (22nd Feb)
- Huffington Post: Government's child obesity action plan is 'severely limited', medical experts claim (22nd Feb)
- Food Processing: Billions saved and longer lives: the case for sugar, salt and fat taxes (21st Feb)
- AoS release: cereals paper (8th Feb)
- Health Committee: Child Obesity follow up evidence session (7th Feb)
- Mail Online: Sales of ready-made sauces slump by £30m in a year after warning they contained high levels of salt and sugar (7th Feb)
- The Times: Choc bars to shrink 20% in war on sugar (5th Feb)
January
- AoS comment: France enforces ban on unlimited fizzy drinks in crackdown on obesity(27th Jan)
- BBC: Cadbury Premier League child health link-up criticised (25th Jan)
- Mirror Online: Record 40,000 children had to have rotting teeth removed in hospital operations (11th Jan)
- Food Navigator: Sugar changes to Eatwell Guide are 'large' but worthwhile: Oxford Study (10th Jan)
- PHE: New Change4Life campaign encourages parents to 'Be Food Smart' (3rd Jan)