2021
December
- BMJ Open: Trends in energy and nutrient content of menu items served by large UK chain restaurants from 2018 to 2020: an observational study (December 30th)
- The Guardian: UK obesity plan will fail without action on unhealthy food – report (December 27th)
- The Daily Mail: Junk food 'should get cigarette-style health warnings': Ultra-processed meals laden with sugar, fat and salt need to carry alerts, researchers say (December 22nd)
- The Conversation: We analysed a decade of media coverage of obesity – this is what we found (December 14th)
- The Independent: Over a third of P1 pupils in poorest areas at risk of being overweight or obese (December 14th)
- The Guardian: Can the UK kick its sugar habit? We ask the expert (AoS comment) (December 10th)
- Beverage Daily: Alcohol should face same marketing restrictions as high fat and high sugar products, say campaigners (December 2nd)
- Confectionery: Sugar in the time of COVID (December 2nd)
- The Grocer: Discounted fruit & veg drive healthier shopping habits, study shows (AoS comment) (December 1st)
November
- The Guardian: ‘We need to break the junk food cycle’: how to fix Britain’s failing food system (November 30th)
- Food Manufacturer: Alcohol manufacturers move towards calorie labelling (November 29th)
- The Times: Healthy warning as candy superstores gobble up the high street (AoS comment) (November 28th)
- Diabetes.co.uk: Health experts slam ‘ludicrous’ promotion of sugary foods to babies (AoS comment) (November 26th)
- Food Active and Children's Food Campaign release: Kicking Out Junk Food - new sports sponsorship report (AoS comment) (November 24th)
- Food Navigator: Supermarkets call for extension on new HFSS laws: ‘This tight timeframe will add considerable cost and burden’ (November 23rd)
- Food Navigator: Jump in childhood obesity highlights UK health inequalities: ‘Childhood obesity is strongly associated with low incomes’ (November 18th)
- Daily Mail: Lockdown legacy of obesity for 1 in 4 pupils (AoS comment) (November 16th)
- NHS Digital: National Child Measurement Programme, England 2020/21 School Year (AoS comment) (November 16th)
- The Guardian: NHS to set up 15 special clinics in England for severely obese children (November 16th)
- Dentistry Online: The UK’s most sugary Christmas drinks revealed (AoS comment) (November 15th)
- The Grocer: Sugar could become the next tobacco in the eyes of regulators (November 15th)
- CBC News: Which coffee chain drink has as much sugar as 2 cups of ice cream? (AoS comment) (November 12th)
- Action on Sugar release: NEW product survey reveals shocking truth about so called ‘healthy’ baby & toddler sweet snacks (November 10th)
- The Sun: HO HO NO Coffee chain Christmas drinks contain up to whopping 63 GRAMS of sugar (November 6th)
- Food Manufacture: Why voluntary nutrition labels for alcoholic drinks won’t work (November 1st)
October
- The Grocer: Report criticises ‘health halo effect’ used to market HFSS products to teens (October 25th)
- The Guardian: Child obesity linked to England’s widening health disparities, study finds (October 25th)
- Bite Back 2030: New Report from Bite Back 2030 Calls Out the Use of Dishonest ‘Health Claims’ on High Fat, Salt, Sugar Foods Targeted at Teens (October 22nd)
- iNews: Covid report: Minister accused of scapegoating after blaming death toll on obesity rather than the Government
(October 12th) - Food Navigator: Nestlé lauds ‘health by stealth’ cereal tactics (October 11th)
- Action on Sugar and Action on Salt release: New Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Supports Call for Mandatory Front-of-Pack Labelling to Improve Diets (October 6th)
- iNews: Health inequalities are widening after Covid hammered the UK’s poorest, report warns (October 4th)
- iNews: Ten years of bad policy have destroyed Britain’s health, yet we’re still arguing among ourselves (October 3rd)
- Which?: The ‘healthy’ snacks packed full of sugar, fat and salt (October 2nd)
- Eurekalert!: People with overweight or obesity facing discrimination from healthcare workers (October 1st)
September
- Obesity Health Alliance: Turning the Tide: A 10 year Healthy Weight Strategy (September 28th)
- Public Health England: Evaluation of changes in the dietary methodology in the National Diet and Nutrition Survey Rolling Programme from Year 12 (2019 to 2020) (September 22nd)
- Public Health England: National Diet and Nutrition Survey: Diet, nutrition and physical activity in 2020 (September 22nd)
- Impact Magazine: Will Government incentive schemes to tackle obesity bear fruit? (AoS comment) (September 18th)
- Department of Health: UK To Spearhead Europe-Wide Initiative To Reduce Sugar And Calorie Intake In Food (September 13th)
- The Scotsman: Scottish restaurants could be forced to show how many calories in meals (September 10th)
- FoodNavigator: Could mandatory fruit and veg sections near entrances be next? (September 9th)
- Dairy Reporter: Dairy Dialog podcast 148: Action on Sugar, World Cheese Awards (AoS) (September 1st)
August
- Safe Food Advocacy Europe: Only 1 in 20 of children’s yogurts contain low sugar levels, new Action on Sugar study reveals (AoS) (August 31st)
- Eastern Eye: High tooth decay levels among Asian children causes concern (AoS comment) (August 26th)
- The Independent: Removing sweets from checkouts will encourage healthy eating, say scientists (August 25th)
- Action on Sugar release: Call to Stop Misleading Parents with Child Friendly Packaging and Health Claims on Children’s Yogurts As Only 1 in 20 Contain ‘Healthy’ Sugar Levels (August 19th)
- FoodNavigator: ‘Little evidence’ voluntary targets spur reformulation: ‘The food and beverage industry has to step up’ (August 16th)
- British Baker: Tackling HFSS in baked goods and patisserie (August 17th)
- Food Ingredients 1st: UK industry falls short in reformulating healthier foods and beverages (August 13th)
- The Telegraph: Obesity crisis leaves 1,500 children with type 2 diabetes (August 12th)
- The National: Ban multi-buy offers on junk food to fight obesity, campaigners say (August 12th)
- Sustain: PHE's voluntary reformulation targets are not enough (August 11th)
- NPR: If You Think Your Kids Are Eating Mostly Junk Food, A New Study Finds You're Right (August 11th)
- The Sun: Starbucks and Costa’s iced coffee drinks contain up to 12 teaspoons of sugar each (AoS comment)( August 7th)
- Beverage Daily: Reformulation success: ‘The UK sugar levy has arguably been very successful from a public health point of view’ (August 5th)
- Nuffield Dept of Population Health: Voluntary reformulation targets have little impact on the healthiness of food products (August 4th)
- The Lancet, Public Health: Childhood obesity beyond COVID-19 (August 1st)
July
- UK Government: Government Buying Standards for Food and Catering services (GBSF) (July 22nd)
- Department of Health and Social Care: Promotions of unhealthy foods restricted from October 2022 (July 22nd)
- Share Action: Tracking for Health report 2021 (July 21st)
- Confectionery Production: Government report paves way for UK’s potential global first snacks tax (AoS comment) (July 19th)
- British Baker: Salt and sugar tax proposals met with mixed reaction (AoS comment) (July 16th)
- Evening Standard: Supermarkets pledge support for Dimbleby food report over transparency (July 16th)
- National Food Strategy: An Independent Review for Government (July 15th)
- Food Navigator: From taxing salt and sugar to reducing animal proteins: The controversial proposals in the UK’s National Food Strategy paper (July 15th)
- The Guardian: Revealed: the true extent of America’s food monopolies, and who pays the price (July 14th)
- Daily Mail: Tax plan for sugary and salty snacks -but Boris Johnson's food tsar rules out red meat levy (July 13th)
- The Telegraph: Beet it: why Britain's sugar industry is not so sweet (July 12th)
- Institute for Fiscal Studies: The impact of a tax on added sugar and salt (July 12th)
- Financial Times: The government must impose a sugar tax on food to tackle obesity (July 12th)
- The Telegraph: The sugar lurking in the food you thought was healthy (July 12th)
- The Times: Free fruit and veg planned for the poor in National Food Strategy (July 10th)
- BBC News: Call for calorie content labelling on alcoholic drinks (AoS comment)(July 9th)
- The Grocer: Why more taxes on unhealthy food might be the answer to the UK’s obesity crisis (AoS comment) (July 9th)
- The Gazette: Campaigners call for better alcohol labelling amid public confusion (AoS comment)(July 9th)
- Action on Sugar and Action on Salt release: Call for ALL Cereal Manufacturers to Remove Child Friendly Images from Less Healthy Products, As Progress in Salt & Sugar Reduction Stagnates (July 7th)
- The Food Foundation: The Broken Plate 2021: The State of the Nation’s Food System (July 7th)
- The Guardian: Women living in poverty hit worst by obesity crisis, report finds (July 4th)
- The Times: Britain’s obesity crisis: how did we get so big? (July 4th)
- Food Ingredients First: PepsiCo Europe shakes up healthy snacks and beverages, pledging to slash sugar 25% in soda by 2025 (July 1st)
- Access to Nutrition Initiative: Global Access to Nutrition Index 2021 calls for food industry to urgerntly address nutrition gap in the COVID-19 era (July 1st)
June:
- UK Government Release: New advertising rules to help tackle childhood obesity (June 24th)
- The Guardian: UK to ban junk food advertising online and before 9pm on TV from 2023 (June 23rd)
- Confectionery News: Haribo invests £22m to boost reformulation capabilities in its confectionery (June 17th)
- BBC News: Living with obesity: The people who are hard-wired to store fat (June 17th)
- Verdict Food Service: Nestlé’s revamp in recipes to capitalise on demand for healthier food and drink (June 16th)
- The Telegraph: Children’s diets made up of 65pc ultra-processed food, study finds (June 15th)
- The Conversation: Personalised nutrition is trendy, but can it help us eat less junk food? (June 7th)
- Nuffield Department of Population Health: Most food brands a long way from meeting sugar reduction targets (June 2nd)
- Food Navigator: Nestlé confirms new health and nutrition strategy after leaked documents dent its image (June 2nd)
- Politics: Restricting junk food advertising will help address our obesity crisis (June 2nd)
- Open Access Government: Queen’s Speech addresses key obesity prevention plans (AoS) (June 2nd)
May:
- The Irish Times: Nestlé says majority of its food portfolio is unhealthy (May 31st)
- The Mirror: Post-lockdown Instagram juice diets have 5 times recommended sugar intake (May 29th)
- The Star: MP urges government to learn from Sheffield project tackling child obesity (May 28th)
- Talking Retail: Advertising campaign returns to get kids eating more healthily (May 28th)
- Food Navigator:‘People must be able to trust the claims they see and businesses must be able to back them up’: Recommendations on avoiding greenwashing set out by UK regulator (May 28th)
- The Grocer: How has Kellogg’s escaped HFSS ban, and how can others in the cereal category? (May 21st)
- Food Navigator: What does the future hold for reformulation? (May 19th)
- Food Standards Scotland: Tackling Scottish diet at heart of Food Standards Scotland new 5-year strategy (May 19th)
- Food Navigator: How UK brands are reformulating to avoid the HFSS ad ban (May 19th)
- The Herald Scotland: Covid pandemic 'a wake up call' to tackle Scotland's obesity crisis (May 19th)
- The Times: Chris van Tulleken: ‘A month eating junk food aged my body by ten years’ (May 18th)
- BBC News: Over a million hospital admissions for obesity (May 18th)
- Food Navigator: Kellogg cuts sugar and salt across Europe and UK: ‘The process is trial and error’ (May 17th)
- NewFood Magazine: How will UK Government’s new health Bill impact the food sector and consumer? (AoS comment) (May 14th)
- Food Navigator: Does the UK’s proposed junk food ad ban reduce the motivation to reformulate? (AoS Comment) (May 12th)
- UK Government Release: Calorie labelling on menus to be introduced in cafes, restaurants and takeaways (May 12th)
- iNews: Queen’s Speech 2021: Junk food adverts to be banned completely online and on TV before 9pm (May 11th)
- Action on Sugar and Salt comment: Queen's Speech 2021 (May 11th)
- Food Navigator: Sugary drinks could increase risk of bowel cancer (Aos) (May 7th)
- BMJ Journals: Sugar-sweetened beverage intake in adulthood and adolescence and risk of early-onset colorectal cancer among women (May 6th)
- ShareAction: Tesco’s health commitments send ripples through the food industry (May 5th)
- The Grocer: New and improved products that will escape the HFSS ad ban (May 4th)
- DailyMail Online: Diet soft drinks are no better for your health than their sugary counterpart, new study suggests (AoS comment) (May 3rd)
- DailyMail Online: Child obesity cases treated in NHS hospitals have more than doubled in two years and tripled since 2014 (May 1st)
April:
- The Lancet, Diabetes & Endocrinology: Associations between body-mass index and COVID-19 severity in 6·9 million people in England: a prospective, community-based, cohort study (April 28th)
- Ofcom: Children and parents: media use and attitudes report (April 28th)
- Evening Standard: Minister expresses hopes for lower calorie versions of alcoholic drinks (April 27th)
- My London News: Morrisons make big changes to its ready meals to cut out fat, sugar and salt (April 27th)
- Alcohol Health Alliance: How much sugar is in alcoholic drinks? (April 26th)
- The Times: Advertisers should embrace healthy products, not resist reform (April 14th)
- The Grocer: Health policy under the new Office for Health Promotion is full of holes (AoS) (April 13th)
- The Grocer: Cancer Research UK says new research shows need for HFSS promotions ban (April 9th)
- Foot Service Footprint: PM urged to stick with Junk Food Ad Ban (April 8th)
- The Times: Jamie Oliver attacks Boris Johnson over plan to allow junk food adverts online (April 5th)
- The Sun: What's the Crack? Shocked mum shares photo to show how much sugar in ONE Creme Egg (AoS comment) (April 2nd)
March:
- Yahoo Style: Ban on junk food advertising would 'help reduce children's calorie intake' (March 31st)
- Action on Sugar comment: Government announce Public Health England replacement - the Office for Health Promotion (March 29th)
- Food Navigator: Cereal Partners Worldwide talks breakfast renovation: 'Innovation can be less, rather than more' (March 29th)
- The Telegraph: There's a slim chance that the Office for Health Promotion might actually do some good (AoS comment) (March 29th)
- The Grocer: Obesity strategy facing major shake-up under replacement for PHE (March 29th)
- The Telegraph: The Sugar Challenge: how to kick your addiction to the white stuff and lose weight (AoS comment) (March 26th)
- The Sun: IT'S CHEETABIX Some fruit versions of Weetabix have no fruit at all and are packed full of sugar (March 16th)
- Nutrients Journal: Assessing the Effectiveness of Front of Pack Labels: Findings from an Online Randomised-Controlled Experiment in a Representative British Sample (AoS comment) (March 16th)
- Food Navigator: AoS talking at FREE BROADCAST EVENT: Hear CPUK, Action on Sugar, FDF and more talk reformulation and fortification (March 11th)
- Health & Place: Exposure to unhealthy product advertising: Spatial proximity analysis to schools and socio-economic inequalities in daily exposure measured using Scottish Children's individual-level GPS data (March)
- The Grocer: Has Tesco’s obesity strategy set a bar for rivals and suppliers? (March 11th)
- The Times: Sugar tax cuts Britain’s intake by 10% (AoS Comment) (March 11th)
- The BMJ: UK’s sugar tax hits the sweet spot (March 10th)
- The Grocer: Calls to extend sugar tax as study shows soft drinks levy success (March 10th)
- The BMJ: Changes in soft drinks purchased by British households associated with the UK soft drinks industry levy: controlled interrupted time series analysis (March 10th)
- The Telegraph: Medical chiefs call for ban on junk food advertising in sport after Covid death rates linked to UK obesity (March 10th)
- Sustain: Bristol becomes first city outside London to restrict junk food advertising (March 10th)
- Talking Retail: Health experts call for honest food labelling. (March 9th)
- The Grocer: Implementation of junk food proposals ‘inconceivable’ because of Covid (March 9th)
- The Times: Call for ban on bus stop ads to protect young (March 7th)
- The Guardian: Fat-shamers have felt enabled by Covid, and it's hard to fight back (March 7th)
- The Grocer: Tesco announces new ‘65% healthy products’ target as it steps up action on obesity (March 5th)
- Sustain: Future trade deals could threaten plans to tackle child obesity (AoS Comment) (March 4th)
- BBC: Amazon Fresh till-less grocery store opens in London (March 4th)
- UK Government Release: Government support package to help those living with obesity to lose weight(March 4th)
- Politics House: Obesity is a national emergency; to level up society, it must be addressed (March 4th)
- Huffington Post: Covid Gives Boris Johnson No Choice But To Finally Tackle Our Obesity Crisis (March 3rd)
- Action on Sugar Release: New Research Shows That Gradual Fat Reduction in Processed Food Would Prevent 4.5 Million Cases of Overweight and Obesity in the UK (March 2nd)
- Scientific Reports: A deep learning approach to identify unhealthy advertisements in street view images (March 1st)
February
- The Grocer: Why is the government’s obesity plan so full of loopholes? (AoS) (February 23rd)
- QMUL: Public Engagement Award - Food Flips Online: Encouraging healthier choices by children via a fun online game (February 15th)
- Food Manufacturer: Ultra-processed food term not recognised by Brits says BNF (February 19th)
- UK Government Release: Working together to improve health and social care for all (February 11th)
- SW Londoner: Nestlé sneak 2.5% sugar back into KitKat bars (February 9th)
- Yahoo Finance: FTSE first as Tesco pressured to make healthy food pledge (February 9th)
- Mediatel News: Open your eyes to our junk food blind spot (February 9th)
- The Probe: Taking Action on Sugar! (February 8th)
- The Grocer: Obesity strategy shake-up to see government emphasise healthy living (February 8th)
- Bakery and Snacks: In search of a ‘healthier Scotland’: Consumer watch group calls for ban on marketing HFSS snacks (February 5th)
- Forbes: Should There Be Calorie Labels On Alcohol? Experts Say Yes (February 3rd)
- Daily Mail: Children's yoghurts contain up to as much sugar as TWO chocolate biscuits despite being reformulated to meet government targets to fight obesity (AoS comment) (February 2nd)
- Food Research Collaboration: Food policy connections and disconnections (February 2nd)
January
- Food Research: An Open Letter on the Food Emergency to the Prime Minister and Government (January 29th)
- Reuters: Britain lacks healthy eating focus as response to COVID-19, say academics (January 29th)
- The Grocer: Why we need to ban unhealthy food ads on social media (January 29th)
- The Better Food Journey: How to create coherent food policy? (January 28th)
- The Grocer: Food leaders warn HFSS crackdown will sabotage post-Brexit trade deals (January 28th)
- Sustain: UK notifies WTO it plans to limit promotion of less healthy products (January 25th)
- The BMJ: Will calorie labels for food and drink served outside the home improve public health? (January 20th)
- Wiley - Obesity reviews: Improving the school food environment for the prevention of childhood obesity: What works and what doesn't (January 19th)
- Wiley Online Library: Is Obesity Policy in England Fit for Purpose? Analysis of Government Strategies and Policies, 1992–2020 (January 19th)
- iNews: Obesity policies over last 30 years were ‘destined to fail’ say Cambridge researchers (January 19th)
- Sustain and Children's Food Campaign: Refreshing Investment in Children’s Health: Using the Sugary Drinks Tax to improve healthy food access in schools report (January 18th)
- Confectionery Production: Mars reduces bar size for 100 calorie range, instead of reformulation (January 15th)
- The Independent: Government to let farmers use bee-killing pesticide banned by EU - Save the bees (January 14th)
- The Big Issue: Millions in funding for kid’s health ‘unaccounted for’ in sugar tax dispute (January 14th)
- Newsletter: Action on Salt and Sugar January Newsletter (January 14th)
- The Grocer: Millions of pounds ‘unaccounted’ for from sugar tax, claims report (January 12th)
- Mirror Online: Mum slams free school meal food parcel as Marcus Rashford says it's 'not good enough (January 12th)
- iNews: Government accused of side-lining millions in sugar tax revenue pledged for children’s health projects (January 11th)
- Action on Sugar Position Statement: Future of Prevention in the UK (January 11th)
- The Grocer: Is a ban on in-store HFSS promotions now inevitable? (January 8th)
- NewFood Magazine: Industry self-regulation not the answer to obesity, according to BMJ (January 7th)
- The BMJ: Industry self-regulation fails to deliver healthier diets, again (January 6th)
- Open Access Government: Who should tackle the biggest cause of premature death when PHE is gone? (January 6th)
- Public Health England: Seven in 10 adults are motivated to get healthier in 2021 due to COVID-19 (January 4th)
- Food Manufacturer: Government clamps down on ‘junk food’ promotions (AoS comment) (January 4th)
- Conscious Advertising Network: Children's wellbeing (January 1st)