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NEWS ‘International news’ CATEGORY
- Saturday, November 16th, 2013
Pacific nations at risk of being bankrupted by diabetes - Thursday, November 14th, 2013
Evidence that taxing sugary drinks reduces the obesity rate - Sunday, November 3rd, 2013
Mexican Senate approves junk food tax - Saturday, November 2nd, 2013
UK: Sugary drinks tax ‘effective public health measure’ - Friday, November 1st, 2013
Mexico to ban junk food ads during children’s TV programming - Friday, June 21st, 2013
UK: Hybrid traffic light food labelling scheme gets government backing - Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
Denmark scraps fat tax - Friday, November 2nd, 2012
UK to get hybrid front of pack food labels – including traffic lights - Thursday, August 30th, 2012
Denmark: Scrapping fat tax on agenda - Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
UK: Tesco joins rivals in using traffic light food labelling - Friday, July 13th, 2012
UK: Why food ‘traffic-light’ labels did not happen - Tuesday, July 10th, 2012
UK: Junk food sponsorship of Olympics questioned - Monday, April 30th, 2012
US: TV Ads Linked to Unhealthy Diets in Young Adults - Monday, April 30th, 2012
US: How Washington went soft on childhood obesity - Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
US: Effectiveness of Front of Package Food Labelling Systems - Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
US: Food company computer games increase junk food consumption - Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
US: The single, most significant cause of childhood obesity - Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
World’s first fat tax: what will it achieve? - Thursday, October 20th, 2011
UK: Government’s obesity plan criticised - Friday, October 7th, 2011
Denmark introduces tax on fatty foods to improve life expectancy - Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
UK: TV viewing linked to unhealthy eating - Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
UN Summit to tackle ‘lifestyle’ diseases – updated - Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
WHO maps noncommunicable disease trends in all countries - Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
US: Attacking the obesity epidemic by first figuring out its cause - Sunday, September 4th, 2011
UK: Jamie Oliver calls for global action to tackle obesity - Monday, August 29th, 2011
World-wide action needed to reverse 40 years of rising obesity epidemic - Sunday, March 20th, 2011
Ireland: Food giants’ sweetie splurge on sport - Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
US: Cartoons And Cereal Choices; Can Shrek Make Kids Eat Brussels Sprouts Too? - Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
US: Pre-emptive bill on fast food and kids reeks of hollow politics - Friday, February 4th, 2011
International trends in obesity - Friday, February 4th, 2011
NZ: Oceania has the world’s highest rates of obesity - Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
US: New dietary guidelines: Eat less, eat better and lose the salt - Friday, January 28th, 2011
US: Why the happy meal is already illegal - Thursday, January 27th, 2011
US: Preschool kids know what they like: salt, sugar and fat - Sunday, January 23rd, 2011
US: Weekend sleep may equal leaner children - Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
WHO: Reducing the marketing of unhealthy foods to children - Saturday, December 18th, 2010
US: Parents may not have that much influence over kids’ eating habits - Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
UK: Britain releases white paper on public health - Friday, October 15th, 2010
US: Institute of Medicine pushes front-of-package food labels - Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
OECD says governments must fight fat - Sunday, July 25th, 2010
UK: NICE guidelines for healthier food - Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
US: McDonald’s threatened with lawsuit over kids happy meal toys - Monday, June 21st, 2010
US: Cartoon characters attract kids to junk food – study - Saturday, June 19th, 2010
UK: The lobbying campaign that won the food labelling battle - Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Europe: EU Parliament rejects ‘traffic light’ food labelling - Friday, June 11th, 2010
Europe: A red light for consumer information – the food industry’s 1-billion euro campaign to block health warnings on food - Sunday, May 30th, 2010
Mexico: Ban on junk foods in schools coming soon - Saturday, May 29th, 2010
US: Why the US Federal Government needs to halt the marketing of unhealthy foods to kids - Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
WHO targets child obesity with food marketing curbs - Thursday, May 20th, 2010
US: The battle over taxing soda