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  • UK: Which? sandwich survey
    Which? have published results from their survey of the nutritional content of supermarket sandwiches. Results found that inconsistent labelling between stores made it difficult to identify healthy and unhealthy options. An egg mayonnaise sandwich... 17 May 2012
  • Malta: Obesity strategy launched
    Malta has launched Healthy Wright for Life strategy 2012-2020 which suggest increasing a co-ordinated multi sector approach to tackling the rising rates of obesity in Malta. 17 May 2012
  • UK: 'Fat taxes'
    Researchers have found that Britain would need to put a 20% 'fat tax' on unhealthy food and drink in order to reduce diet-related diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. Researchers looked at evidence from around the world of the benefits of... 16 May 2012
  • UK: New consultation on food labelling
    The government has launched a new consultation to get opinions from food manufacturers, shops and health experts on the best way to label food. The government hopes to make it easy for people to make healthy food choices suggesting a combination of... 14 May 2012
  • USA: Children's behaviours and snack consumption
    Researchers examined the extent to which behaviour can predict the consumption of healthy or unhealthy snacks. Over a 24 hour period snacking appeared to form a large part of children's calorie intake with most showing preference toward unhealthy... 11 May 2012
  • UK: Mothers underestimate their child's weight
    New Growing Up in Scotland report found only 3% of mothers whose children were overweight and 30% of mothers with obese children recognised that something needed to be done. A strong relationship was found between the weight of the mother and the... 11 May 2012
  • UK: Half of men in the UK will be obese by 2040
    Our director of modelling, Tim Marsh, was speaking at European Congress on Obesity about the rising problem of obesity in the UK. 11 May 2012
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