Exclusive: Food, Farming and Countryside Commission added up cost to NHS and economy of diet-linked diseaseThe UK’s growing addiction to unhealthy food costs a “staggering” £268bn a year, far outstripping...
Read MoreHealth and children’s groups urge UK ministers to impose levies on products containing too much salt or sugarDozens of health and children’s groups have urged ministers to tackle obesity by imposing taxes on foods...
Read MoreExclusive: Stéfan Descheemaeker of Nomad Foods says mandatory rules could help kickstart ‘nutrition arms race’Food firms should be forced to reveal how healthy or unhealthy their products are, to help people...
Read MoreUK health secretary says unemployed people will not be ‘involuntarily jabbed’ to get them back to workWes Streeting has denied his plans to give new weight-loss jabs to the unemployed to help them back into work...
Read MoreUK health secretary says people will not be ‘involuntarily jabbed’ but that medications could be ‘gamechanging’Wes Streeting has denied his plans to give new weight-loss jabs to unemployed people to help...
Read MoreMore than 200 doctors and experts warn health secretary of ‘enormous pressure’ on already stretched servicesWeight-loss injections are not the “holy grail” of solving the obesity crisis, although they...
Read MoreInstitute for Public Policy Research says firms that fail to offer options such as subsidised nutritious food should face censureEmployers should be fined if they create unhealthy workplaces, as part of Wes Streeting’s...
Read MoreHealth secretary announces trials to assess impact of medicines such as Ozempic or Mounjaro on worklessnessNew weight-loss jabs could be given to unemployed people to help them get back into work, Wes Streeting has suggested.The...
Read MoreOnline adverts for products high in fat, salt and sugar to be banned altogether and TV ads will air only after 9pmJunk food TV advertisements are to be banned from airing before the 9pm watershed as part of the...
Read MoreHealth groups challenge Starmer to ban ‘unhealthy products’ firms from lobbying MPs by giving them giftsMPs are being urged to stop accepting freebies to sports and cultural events from tobacco, alcohol and junk food...
Read MoreExclusive: Poll findings prompt calls for ministers to impose sugar tax-style levy on companies to combat obesityA majority of people in Britain want new taxes imposed on companies that make either junk food or ultra-processed...
Read MoreExperts say success shows expansion of tax to cover other foods and drinks is a ‘no brainer’The amount of sugar consumed by children from soft drinks in the UK halved within a year of the sugar tax being introduced,...
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