The Daily Mail reported that schools had been forced to utilise other budgets to subsidise the programme and suggested it could be scrapped, whilst The Telegraph said uptake rates
Experts believe that a tax of 7p per regular sized can of soft drink with added sugar could generate £1 billion per year.
Simon Stevens, chief executive of the NHS, has told the health service to ‘put its house in order’ by ensuring hospitals are not adding to the obesity crisis by serving up unhealthy food, during a
The latest analysis from PHE’s National Cardiovascular Health Intelligence Network (NCVIN) estimates 5,047,891 adults in England are pre-diabetic, also known as non-diabetic hyperglycaemia, meaning
A new piece of joint research reveals that state school students are much less interested in healthy school meals than students in the independent school sector.
The WASH research, which compared fast food chains such as KFC, Subway and Burger King, found that 82% of meals contain more than 1g of salt.
Neel Radia, chair of the National Association of Care Catering, which organises the meals on wheels event, has welcomed the involvement this year of the Lead Association for Catering in Education (
The new figures, extracted from official NHS data, show that there are now 3,333,069 people diagnosed with diabetes, which is an increase of more than 1.2 million adults compared with ten years ago
Andy’s role will be to advise on future strategy, research development, government lobbying and press promotion. He will also represent the PS100 group at relevant industry events.
The BMA said poor diets accounting for around 70,000 premature deaths each year, accounting for around 12% of the total number of deaths, but imposing the tax could reduce the crisis in the UK by a