December

• 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 (22nd December)
• The Grocer: Discounted fruit & veg drive healthier shopping habits, study shows (AoS comment) (1st December)

November

• Food Manufacturer: Salt levels in plant-based meat come under fire (AoS comment) (26th November)
• Action on Salt release: Excessive Salt Levels Found in So-Called Healthy Plant-Based Meat (25th November)
• Food Manufacturer: Tougher salt regulations advocated in light of new heart disease research (AoS comment) (15th November)
• New England Journal of Medicine: NEW Study Clearly Demonstrates That Reducing Salt Intake Reduces the Number of People Suffering & Dying from Strokes & Heart Disease (13th November)
• The Times: How to be a healthy vegan (13th November)
• The Daily Express: Sainsbury’s boss concerned over 'salt & fat content' in vegan foods - 'got to be careful' (7th November)

October

• The Grocer: Report criticises ‘health halo effect’ used to market HFSS products to teens (October 25th) 
• The Daily Express: Hypertension diet: 4 everyday foods with more salt than a bag of crisps (AoS Comment) (25th October)
• 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) 
• BMJ Open: New five-country study reveals wide variation in salt content across processed fish and meat products (19th October)
• WASSH Comment: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Releases Short-term Salt Reduction Targets (13th October)
• The Business Standard: Excessive salt intake to cause 1.6 million deaths this year (11th October)
• Action on Salt and Action on Sugar release: New Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Supports Call for Mandatory Front-of-Pack Labelling to Improve Diets (6th October)
• iNews: Health inequalities are widening after Covid hammered the UK’s poorest, report warns (4th October) 
• Which?: The ‘healthy’ snacks packed full of sugar, fat and salt (2nd October)

September

• Obesity Health Alliance: Turning the Tide: A 10 year Healthy Weight Strategy (28th September)
• 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) (22nd September)
• Public Health England: National Diet and Nutrition Survey: Diet, nutrition and physical activity in 2020 (22nd September)
• Impact Magazine: Will Government incentive schemes to tackle obesity bear fruit? (AoS comment) (18th September)
• Nutrients Journal: Core Strategies to Increase the Uptake and Use of Potassium-Enriched Low-Sodium Salt (15th September)
• iNews: McDonald’s launches new ‘McPlant’ vegan burger with UK-wide rollout from next month (AoS comment) (9th September)
• Yorkshire Evening Post: Almost third of Leeds residents "not concerned" about blood pressure as charity issues warning (6th September)

August

• The Times: Everything you need to know about blood pressure (31st August)
• New England Journal of Medicine: New landmark study finds potassium-based salt substitute significantly reduces risk of stroke and death compared to regular salt (30th August)
• The Daily Mail: Revealed: The high street 'healthy' lunches options with more salt than a tube of Pringles - including Itsu sushi and Leon's vegan box (21st August)
• British Baker: Tackling HFSS in baked goods and patisserie
  
• FoodNavigator: ‘Little evidence’ voluntary targets spur reformulation: ‘The food and beverage industry has to step up’ (16th August)
• The Telegraph: Just how healthy is your plant-based burger? (15th August) 
  
• Food Ingredients 1st: UK industry falls short in reformulating healthier foods and beverages (13th August) 
• The National: Ban multi-buy offers on junk food to fight obesity, campaigners say (12th August)
• Sustain: PHE's voluntary reformulation targets are not enough (11th August) 
• Daily Mail: New call for a snack tax as research suggests food giants are 'ignoring' voluntary sugar and salt targets (5th August)
• PLOS ONE: Assessing the healthiness of UK food companies’ product portfolios using food sales and nutrient composition data (5th August)

July

• Food Standards Agency: Food and You 2 (29th July)
• IGD: The National Food Strategy: how will the plan navigate us to a healthy and sustainable diet? (27th July)
• Open Access Government: Changing food labelling will help consumers make healthier choices (27th July)
• UK Government: Publication of the Government’s response to public consultation on the Government Buying Standards for Food and Catering services (GBSF) (22nd July)
• Department of Health and Social Care: Promotions of unhealthy foods restricted from October 2022 (22nd July)
• Share Action: Tracking for Health report 2021 (21st July)
• iNews: Ban on unlimited drink refills and ‘buy one get one free’ junk-food offers to be imposed from October 2022 (21st July)
• The Grocer: Junk food promotions ban delayed after outcry over timeframe (21st July)
• Evening Standard: Supermarkets pledge support for Dimbleby food report over transparency (16th July)
• British Baker: Salt and sugar tax proposals met with mixed reaction (AoS comment) (July 16th)
• National Food Strategy: An Independent Review for Government (15th July)
• Food Navigator: From taxing salt and sugar to reducing animal proteins: The controversial proposals in the UK’s National Food Strategy paper (15th July)
• National Food Strategy Release: An Independent Review for Government (15th July)
• The Guardian: Revealed: the true extent of America’s food monopolies, and who pays the price (July 14th)
• Daily Mail: Is it time to shake up the rules on salt? Experts argue it's not as bad for health as you think (July 13th)
• Institute for Fiscal Studies: The impact of a tax on added sugar and salt (12th July)
• The Times: Free fruit and veg planned for the poor in National Food Strategy (July 10th)
• The Grocer: Why more taxes on unhealthy food might be the answer to the UK’s obesity crisis (July 9th)
• Action on Salt and Action on Sugar release: Call for ALL Cereal Manufacturers to Remove Child Friendly Images from Less Healthy Products, As Progress in Salt & Sugar Reduction Stagnates (7th July)
• The Food Foundation: The Broken Plate 2021: The State of the Nation’s Food System (7th July)
• The Sun: Salt tax: Boris Johnson’s food tsar to recommend SIX per cent tax on salty foods in bid to get Brits healthy (1st July)
• Access to Nutrition Initiative: Global Access to Nutrition Index 2021 calls for food industry to urgently address nutrition gap in the COVID-19 era (1st July)

June

• UK Government Release: New advertising rules to help tackle childhood obesity (24th June)
• The Guardian: UK to ban junk food advertising online and before 9pm on TV from 2023 (23rd June)
• The Daily Express: High blood pressure: Two signs found on your face warning of hypertension risk (AoS Comment) (8th June)
• iNews: ‘Health MOTs’ at Covid vaccination sites ‘will save thousands of lives’ (16th June)
• JAMA Network: Association Between Childhood Consumption of Ultraprocessed Food and Adiposity Trajectories in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children Birth Cohort (14th June)
• The Grocer: Majority of Brits support total ban on online junk food advertising (3rd June)
• Food Navigator: Nestlé confirms new health and nutrition strategy after leaked documents dent its image (2nd June)
• Open Access Government: Queen’s Speech addresses key obesity prevention plans (AoS) (2nd June)

May

• The Irish Times: Nestlé says majority of its food portfolio is unhealthy (31st May) 
• Talking Retail: Advertising campaign returns to get kids eating more healthily (28th May)
• The Daily Express: High blood pressure: Three symptoms that signal your hypertension reading is 'very high' (AoS comment) (27th May)
• The Grocer: How has Kellogg’s escaped HFSS ban, and how can others in the cereal category? (21st May) 
• Talking Retail: Snack A Jacks taps into healthy eating trend with range reformulation (21st May) 
• Food Navigator: What does the future hold for reformulation? (19th May) 
• Food Standards Scotland: Tackling Scottish diet at heart of Food Standards Scotland new 5-year strategy (19th May) 
• Food Navigator: How UK brands are reformulating to avoid the HFSS ad ban (19th May)
• The Times: Chris van Tulleken: ‘A month eating junk food aged my body by ten years’ (18th May) 
• Food Navigator: Kellogg's cuts sugar and salt across Europe and UK: 'The process is trial and error' (17th May)
• Food Navigator: Does the UK’s proposed junk food ad ban reduce the motivation to reformulate? (AoS Comment) (12th May) 
• NewFood Magazine: How will UK Government’s new health Bill impact the food sector and consumer? (AoS comment) (14th May) 
• UK Government Release: Calorie labelling on menus to be introduced in cafes, restaurants and takeaways (12th May)
• Action on Salt and Sugar comment: Queen's Speech 2021 (May 11th)
• iNews: Queen’s Speech 2021: Junk food adverts to be banned completely online and on TV before 9pm (May 11th) 
• The Daily Express: High blood pressure: 'Surprisingly' salty foods to avoid - including vegan burgers (AoS) (8th May)
• WHO: World Health Organization release new Global Sodium Benchmarks (5th May)
• ShareAction: Tesco’s health commitments send ripples through the food industry (5th May)
• The Grocer: New and improved products that will escape the HFSS ad ban (4th May)
• Food Manufacture: Re:formulate: Action on Salt on food industry salt reduction (AoS) (1st May)
  

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 (28th April)
• Daily Express: High blood pressure symptoms: Four perceptible warning signs of untreated hypertension  (AoS comment) (28th April)
• Ofcom: Children and parents: media use and attitudes report (28th April)
• My London News: Morrisons make big changes to its ready meals to cut out fat, sugar and salt (27th April)
• Circulation Journal: Sodium, Blood Pressure, and the Likely Massive Avoidable Burden of Cardiovascular Disease (19th April)
• The Grocer: Health policy under the new Office for Health Promotion is full of holes (AoS) (13th April)
• The Grocer: Cancer Research UK says new research shows need for HFSS promotions ban (9th April)
• Foot Service Footprint: PM urged to stick with Junk Food Ad Ban (8th April)
• The Times: Jamie Oliver attacks Boris Johnson over plan to allow junk food adverts online (5th April)

March

• The Daily Express: High blood pressure: Nine foods you should ‘eat less of’ to reduce risk (AoS Comment) (30th March)
• The Grocer: Obesity strategy facing major shake-up under replacement for PHE (29th March)
• Food Navigator: Cereal Partners Worldwide talks breakfast renovation: 'Innovation can be less, rather than more' (29th March)
• Action on Salt comment: Government announce Public Health England replacement - the Office for Health Promotion (29th March)
• The Grocer: The time is now for UK government to deliver a world-leading food policy (25th March)
• New research: Assessing the Effectiveness of Front of Pack Labels: Findings from an Online Randomised-Controlled Experiment in a Representative British Sample (16th March)
• The Grocer: Has Tesco’s obesity strategy set a bar for rivals and suppliers? (11th March)
• The Telegraph: Medical chiefs call for ban on junk food advertising in sport after Covid death rates linked to UK obesity (10th March)
• Sustain: Bristol becomes first city outside London to restrict junk food advertising (10th March)
• Action on Salt Release: ‘Healthy’ Snacks Could Be Sabotaging Our Health as Experts Call for Honest Food Labelling (9th March)
• The Grocer: Implementation of junk food proposals ‘inconceivable’ because of Covid (9th March)
• Open Access Government: “Salt reduction saves lives” – So why is it being pushed aside? (8th March)
• The Times: Call for ban on bus stop ads to protect young (7th March)
• The Grocer: Tesco announces new ‘65% healthy products’ target as it steps up action on obesity (5th March)
• Journal of Human Hypertension: The impact of baseline potassium intake on the dose–response relation between sodium reduction and blood pressure change: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials (5th March)
• UK Government release: Government support package to help those living with obesity to lose weight (4th March)
• Politics Home: Obesity is a national emergency; to level up society, it must be addressed (4th March)
• BBC: Amazon Fresh till-less grocery store opens in London (4th March)
• New Research: Potential impact of gradual reduction of fat content in manufactured and out-of-home food on obesity in the United Kingdom: a modeling study (2nd March)

February

• The Telegraph: We’re dealing with fat and sugar – now we need to restart the war on salt (AoS comment) (28th February)
• The Grocer: Why is the government’s obesity plan so full of loopholes? (February 23rd)
• New Research: Impact of the 2003 to 2018 Population Salt Intake Reduction Program in England - A Modeling Study (February 22nd)
• Food Manufacturer: Ultra-processed food term not recognised by Brits says BNF (February 19th)
• QMUL: Public Engagement Award - Food Flips Online: Encouraging healthier choices by children via a fun online game (February 15th)
• Circulation, AHA: Blood Pressure Effects of Sodium Reduction: Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Experimental Studies (15th February)
• UK Government Release: Working together to improve health and social care for all (February 11th)
• Mediatel: Open your eyes to our junk food blind spot (9th February)
• Yahoo Finance: FTSE first as Tesco pressured to make healthy food pledge (9th February)
• The Grocer: Obesity strategy shake-up to see government emphasise healthy living (8th February)
• Bakery and Snacks: In search of a ‘healthier Scotland’: Consumer watch group calls for ban on marketing HFSS snacks (5th February)
• Food Research Collaboration: Food policy connections and disconnections (2nd February)

January

• Reuters: Britain lacks healthy eating focus as response to COVID-19, say academics (29th January)
• The Grocer: Food leaders warn HFSS crackdown will sabotage post-Brexit trade deals (28th January)
• Food Navigator: Time for sodium alternatives to show they’re ‘worth their salt’ (25th January)
• Sustain: UK notifies WTO it plans to limit promotion of less healthy products (25th January)
• Wiley - Obesity reviews: Improving the school food environment for the prevention of childhood obesity: What works and what doesn't  (19th January)
• Wiley Online Library: Is Obesity Policy in England Fit for Purpose? Analysis of Government Strategies and Policies, 1992–2020 (19th January)
• iNews: Obesity policies over last 30 years were ‘destined to fail’ say Cambridge researchers (January 19th)
• Newsletter: Action on Salt and Sugar January Newsletter (14th January)
• Action on Salt Position Statement: The Future of Prevention in the UK (11th January)
• The Grocer: Is a ban on in-store HFSS promotions now inevitable? (8th January)
• NewFood Magazine: Industry self-regulation not the answer to obesity, according to BMJ (7th January)
• The BMJ: Industry self-regulation fails to deliver healthier diets, again (6th January)
• Open Access Government: Who should tackle the biggest cause of premature death when PHE is gone? (6th January)
• Public Health England: Seven in 10 adults are motivated to get healthier in 2021 due to COVID-19 (4th January)
• FoodManufacturer: Government clamps down on ‘junk food’ promotions (4th January)
• Conscious Advertising Network: Children's Wellbeing (1st January)