2020
December
- Action on Salt Comment: Promotions on food and drinks high in fat, salt or sugar (HFSS) in retailers will be restricted from April 2022 (28th December)
- The Drum: 86% of teens exposed to junk food ads on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter (18th December)
- Action on Salt Release: Crumpets - A Technical Report (17th December)
- Food Navigator: Should reformulated junk food ever receive Nutri-Score ‘A’? The case against an across-the-board algorithm (14th December)
- The National Diet and Nutrition Survey: NDNS: results from years 9 to 11 (combined) (December 11th)
November
- Action on Salt comment: Shoppers favour front-of-pack traffic lights over Nutri-Score claims Which? (November 25th)
- Public Health England: Commercial baby food and drink guidelines consultation (November 24th)
- The Food Foundation: Plating Up Progress 2020: Pathways for A Healthy, Just and Sustainable Food System During A Global Pandemic (November 20th)
- Open Access Government: Salt: The forgotten pandemic (November 17th)
- Global Health Advocacy Incubator: Facing Two Pandemics: How Big Food Undermined Public Health in the Era of COVID-19 (November 17th)
- The Daily Express: How to live longer: Stock cubes could be detrimental to your blood pressure (AoS comment) (November 14th)
- Confectionery News: UK set to ban online adverts promoting food high in fat, sugar and salt (November 11th)
- UK Government Release and Action on Salt comment: New public consultation on total ban of online advertising for unhealthy foods (November 10th)
- Policy Exchange: Saving a lost decade - How a new deal for public health can help build a healthier nation (November 10th)
- Huffington Post: Charities And Unions Urge Gavin Williamson To Fund Free School Meals Over Christmas (November 5th)
October
- National Child Measurement Programme: National Child Measurement Programme, England 2019/20 School Year (October 29th)
- The Lancet, Global Burden of Disease Study: Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (October 17th)
- Guy's & St Tomas's Charity & Collaboration for Healthier Lives in the UK Report: Can supermarkets help turn the tide on obesity? (October 19th)
- New research: Ultra-processed food consumption and risk of obesity: a prospective cohort study of UK Biobank (October 18th)
- inews: Jamie Oliver: Give young people 20% off healthy food, says anti-childhood obesity campaign (October 15th)
- Daily Express: High blood pressure warning - the change on your skin that could signal you're at risk (AoS Comment) (October 15th)
- New research: The potential health impact of restricting less-healthy food and beverage advertising on UK television between 05.30 and 21.00 hours: A modelling study (October 13th)
- Newsletter: Action on Salt and Sugar October Newsletter (October 12th)
- Public Health England: Sugar reduction: report on progress between 2015 and 2019 (October 7th)
September
- Food Navigator: Should salt reduction targets be mandatory in Europe? (September 30th)
- Action on Salt and Blood Pressure UK: UK’s Leading Salt Reduction Policy in Jeopardy Following Closure of Public Health England (September 30th)
- Action and Salt and Action on Sugar Comment: Defining ‘healthy’ food advertising ahead of the 9pm watershed (29th September)
- Action on Salt and Action on Sugar Response: 2020 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) (September 24th)
- Action on Salt and Action on Sugar Report: Breakfast cereals with packaging that may appeal to children (September 18th)
- The Food Foundation: The Broken Plate Report (September 18th)
- Action on Sugar Release: Experts Call for Honest Labelling on So-Called ‘Healthy’ Fruit Snacks Loaded with Sugars and Misleading Claims (16th September)
- Daily Echo: Blood Research UK home blood pressure monitors (10th September)
- Food Navigator: New salt reduction targets for UK as progress report reveals ‘little’ improvement (9th September)
- Action on Salt Comment: Public Health England publish new salt and calorie reduction targets (7th September)
- NewFood Magazine: Voluntary calorie and salt reduction guidelines published for food industry (7th September)
- Action on Salt Comment: Government launches national diet strategy (3rd September)
- Action on Smoking and Health: Joint statement to the Government of Public Health England reorganisation (2nd September)
August
- The Grocer: Has traffic light health labelling reached the end of the road? (28th August)
- Action on Salt Comment: FSA in the frame to handle reformulation strategy (19th August)
- Action on Salt Comment: Closure of Public Health England (18th August)
- Confectionery News: UK government publishes policy paper on tackling ‘obesity time bomb’ (18th August)
- Action on Salt Comment: Defending the right to advertise – a response from the Ad Association, IPA and Isba (10th August)
July
- National Food Strategy: Part 1 of National Food Strategy (29th July)
- The Drum Interview: UK 'junk food' ad ban: IAB, Advertising Association and Action on Sugar debate proposals (29th July)
- Action on Salt Comment: Nearly two-thirds of Bedford adults overweight (28th July)
- Action on Salt Comment: Food and Drink Federation criticises government’s ‘missed opportunity’ on tackling obesity (28th July)
- UK Government release: New Obesity Strategy unveiled as country urged to lose weight to beat COVID-19 and protect the NHS (27th July)
- NewFood Magazine: Government unveils new obesity strategy (27th July)
- Food Navigator: Pester power: ‘Peppa Pig, Disney, and Star Wars have no place on unhealthy food and drink’ (17th July)
- Action on Salt and Action on Sugar comment: Back “radical obesity plan” to protect health of children, Labour tells Johnson (16th July)
- Action on Salt and Action on Sugar Release: Keeping Score as Leading Experts Evaluate Progress of the Obesity Prevention Plans and Urge the Government to Ban Junk Food Ads Before 9pm (15th July)
- Action on Salt Comment: Junk food promotions to be banned in healthy eating drive (10th July)
- Action on Salt Comment: The Chancellor's 'Eat Out to Help Out' Scheme - A Step Back for Public Health (8th July)
- Action on Salt Comment: Hungry for change: fixing the failures in food (6th July)
- The Grocer: Government urged to clamp down on unhealthy foods by new report (6th July)
- Newsletter: Action on Salt and Action on Sugar July 2020 Newsletter (3rd July)
June
- Food Navigator: ‘Health is emerging as a key investment risk’: Investors urge Tesco to adopt targets promoting healthy food (26th June)
- Food Manufacturer: Boredom sparks decline in healthy eating (22nd June)
- The Daily Express: Britons are now officially FATTER than pigs after huge increase in average weight (22nd June)
- New Research: Effectiveness and Feasibility of Taxing Salt and Foods High in Sodium: A Systematic Review of the Evidence (20th June)
- Confectionery News: UK convenience retail market to grow 8% in 2020, says new report (18th June)
- Food Navigator: Unilever eyes potential in wellness: ‘We are uniquely positioned to lead purposefully in the space of holistic health and immunity’ (12th June)
- New research: Obesity and COVID-19: the role of the food industry (10th June)
- Action on Salt and Action on Sugar comment: Reducing obesity and improving health during the COVID-19 pandemic (5th June)
- Action on Salt and Action on Sugar comment:Coronavirus: Obesity link reignites calls for access to healthy foods (3rd June)
- Public Health England: COVID-19: review of disparities in risks and outcomes (2nd June)
May
- Daily Mail: Dear Boris... Opening the floodgates to food that would be illegal here betrays our farmers and our children: JAMIE OLIVER joins Mail on Sunday's campaign to save our family farms with a passionate open letter to PM (30th May)
- Action on Salt and Action on Sugar Release: Experts Call for Immediate Government Intervention on Obesity to Help Prevent Further Deaths from COVID-19 (29th May)
- Action on Salt/Action on Sugar & Children's Food Campaign Release: Junk Food Brand Drops Advertising to Kids During Lockdown to Avoid Formal Regulatory Investigation (21st May)
- Action on Salt and Action on Sugar comment: Campaigners call for junk food and drink advertising ban as Britain PM hints at interventionism to tackle obesity (15th May)
- Action on Salt and Action on Sugar comment: Letters: There's a pandemic on, let's cut out the unhealthy food and drinks ads
- Action on Salt and Action on Sugar comment: Action on Sugar and Action on Salt call for unhealthy advertising ban during lockdown (14th May)
- Food Ingredients First: Salt Reduction: Preservation without sodium and delivering on taste (13th May)
- Global Nutrition Report: 2020 Global Nutrition Report (12th May)
April
- Action on Salt and Action on Sugar comment: Letters: this crisis is no excuse for irresponsible food ads (29th April)
- Action on Salt comment: PHE salt targets: What needs to still be done? (2nd April)
March
- Action on Salt comment: Response to Public Health England’s Proposed Salt Targets – 2023 Salt Reduction Targets (23rd March)
- Action on Salt Release: ‘Healthy’ Plant Based Meals Drowning in Salt as Action on Salt Calls for Government to Get Tough on the Eating Out Sector (10th March)
- New Research: ‘Nutrition Profile of Products with Cartoon Animations on the Packaging: A UK Cross-Sectional Survey of Foods and Drinks'(6th March)
February
- Action on Salt Release: New Evidence for Salt Reduction - Government must now force the food industry to take out the huge and unnecessary amount of salt they add to our food (25th February)
January
- Action on Salt Release: Food Manufacturers Accused of Pathetic Progress on Salt Reduction as New Survey Finds Two Rashers of Bacon are Saltier than 8 Bags of Crisps! (9th January)
- Angle News: The supermarket ready meals that have more salt than a whole tube of Pringles (9th January)
- Action on Salt comment: Asda follows Lidl in scrapping cartoons on cereal boxes in fight against obesity (7th January)
- Action on Salt comment: Lidl becomes the latest retailer to remove cartoon characters from children's breakfast cereals (3rd January)
- The Food Foundation: 400,000 children in London experience food insecurity - #Right2Food Campaign