David Buck: Obesity and public health – a taxing issue

Obesity, and its control, is high on the public health agenda. Recently the Lancet published a series of important papers on the science and social science of obesity and its prevention. According to conservative estimates the projected obesity trends in the UK to 2030 imply 5,450,000 new cases of diabetes, 330,000 cases of coronary heart disease and stroke, […]

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Vanessa Hattersley on getting rid of VAT on fruit smoothies

Although innocent is a relatively young company (12 years old in 2011), it has a long history of campaigning for the reduction of VAT on fruit juice and smoothies. Both of these count towards your 5-a-day (fruit juice counts as one and smoothies count as two portions [1]), but apart from sweetened dried fruit, they […]

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