Children’s food and drink at UK’s top visitor attractions has been ranked today in a new league table, published by the Soil Association’s ‘Out to Lunch’...
According to official figures emerging today cycling rates have decreased in Scotland, leading to campaigners calling for the Scottish Government to increase its spending on walking and...
Last week, the UK Government published its long overdue ‘action plan’ to reduce childhood obesity. Despite the fact that a third of children aged two to five...
The UK must rethink its approach to food and farming to tackle the related challenges of food poverty, obesity and environmental sustainability, according to a new...
The government could back proposals to reduce the UK’s recommended daily sugar intake from 10% to 5% – the equivalent of just one 330ml can of...
A campaign group is calling on the government to take immediate action on sugar and junk food, producing a document covering seven areas of policy that...
More than one in three adults are “on the cusp” of developing type two diabetes, new research has revealed, emphasising the need to curb the ongoing...
Modern lifestyles, which encourage a lack of mobility and exercise in the developed world, have greatly increased levels of obesity, according to experts in a report...
The 21 European cities that have reached the final stage of the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayors Challenge, a competition seeking out pioneering ideas that address the continent’s...
Researchers have suggested placing restrictions on the number of takeaways near homes and offices, after a study said that too much exposure to fast food can...
A new study has claimed that children’s diets contain too much salt, with the majority of the intake coming from processed or manufactured foods. The research,...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched a consultation on its draft guidelines for country health institutions, which recommend cutting sugar intake by half. The amendment to...
A leading health official has said that the government may need to introduce a tax on sugar in order to tackle the adverse health effects that...
As people from all corners of the world are living off an increasingly similar diet, decreasing crop diversity is making the global food system more vulnerable...
Exposure to a certain type of man-made pollutant has been linked to the development of certain metabolic complications of obesity in humans by a pioneering new...