Coca-Cola declares it will lower calories in its products
In a statement to US media, the Coca-Cola Company has declared its intention to lower calorie levels in its soft drinks and other products.
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More evidence that skim milk contributes to obesity
A research paper published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood contributes to the growing weight of evidence that skim milk is a more significant factor in weight gain than whole milk. Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, which is tracking the long term health of a representative sample of US children born in 2001, researchers found the prevalence of obese and overweight children was greater amongst those that consumed low fat milk than those who drank full fat milk.
Lack of family meals drives high obesity statistics
A study published in the latest issue of the British medical journal The Lancet has linked a lack of dedicated family meal times with high levels of obesity.
Keith’s Take: Coke’s disrespect is shameful
Coca-Cola’s purported desire to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony in 1971 has been exposed in subsequent years by a series of profit-driven decisions that potentially compromised the health of its consumers. So Coca-Cola’s recent disrespect for the office of the Otago-Southland Coroner and one of its biggest supporters, the late Natasha Harris, is no more than we should expect from one of the global food industry’s largest corporations.
Obesity Olympics
Contrary to claims by the British Prime Minister that government funding of the London Olympics is an investment in improved physical activity and public health, The Children’s Food Campaign (CFC) has accused games organisers of turning the event into a promotion of junk food.
New book champions agriculture’s potential for environmental leadership
The launch last week of Eating Planet-Nutrition Today: A Challenge for Mankind and for the Planet in New York presents the notion of agriculture as a potential leader in the fight to address global nutrition and environmental issues.
Keith’s Take: Detail bedevils food industry
The release this week of new research showing limited direct linkage between sugar consumption and obesity makes the point, if one needed to be made, that science does not provide comfortable material for politicking. While the case against sugar, by sweet and nasty campaigners, is currently loud and vociferous, this new paper’s appearance reminds us that like tobacco the war for control of sugar is just warming up.
New York proposes ban on big soda
New York City is proposing to ban the sale of large sized, sugar laden drinks in all restaurants, cafe’s, bars and other service outlets in the city.
It’s not just what we’re eating, it’s when we eat
Snacking may be the modern way of fuelling up, but new evidence shows that the fashion for grazing throughout the day may be one of the reasons for soaring obesity rates.
Research identifies 20% fat tax as minimum for effect
Researchers at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom have identified 20% as the rate at which a tax needs to be applied to junk food if it is to be an effective tool for reducing obesity.
Lighten up with a boiled egg
Eggs have emerged from recent tests as a possible champion in the battle with obesity, reversing recent trends that have demonised eggs as too cholesterol rich for a healthy diet.
Numbers lining up for fat tax on Australian food
The release of new research by Australian scientists is the latest in a staged argument in favour of the introduction of a fat tax in Australia to reduce the number of diabetes type 2 cases over the next 12 years.
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