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NEWS 2010
- Saturday, December 18th, 2010
US: Parents may not have that much influence over kids’ eating habits - Friday, December 17th, 2010
NZ: How the fruit in schools programme got a reprieve - Friday, December 10th, 2010
NZ: Govt launches healthy eating campaign - Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Australia: Just one in three adults will be ‘healthy weight’ - Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
Australia: Advertisers target junk food ban loophole - Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
Australia: Food Ministers briefed on progress of Food Labelling review - Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
Australia: Fast-food outlets target children with direct marketing - Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Australia: Food labelling report may give green light to “traffic light” labels - Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Australia: Most Australians support traffic light labelling - Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Obesity News 141 - Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
UK: Britain releases white paper on public health - Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Australia: Junk-food codes ‘failing’ children - Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Australia: Hungry Jack’s breaks food advertising code - Friday, November 26th, 2010
NZ: Parental shift work link to obesity - Friday, November 19th, 2010
Australia: Cost effectiveness of “Traffic-Light” food labelling and “junk-food” taxes - Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Australia: Kellogg’s shamed fourth year running for Australia’s worst junk food ads - Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Obesity News 140 - Thursday, October 28th, 2010
Obesity News 139 - Thursday, October 28th, 2010
Australia: Tax on junk food ruled out - Monday, October 18th, 2010
NZ: Obesity in New Zealand: What’s working and what’s not - Monday, October 18th, 2010
Australia: Obesity experts call for price rise in fight against epidemic - Sunday, October 17th, 2010
NZ: Clash of views on healthy food labelling - Friday, October 15th, 2010
US: Institute of Medicine pushes front-of-package food labels - Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Obesity News 138 - Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
Australia: Obesity problem is bigger than we think, despite GDP benefits - Monday, September 27th, 2010
NZ: Labour confirms move to axe GST on fruit, veges - Sunday, September 26th, 2010
NZ: Number of obese Kiwi children ’scary’ - Friday, September 24th, 2010
Obesity News 137 - Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
OECD says governments must fight fat - Sunday, September 12th, 2010
Obesity news 136 - Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
NZ: GST Bill on healthy food turned down - Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Obesity news 135 - Monday, August 23rd, 2010
NZ: Removing GST from healthy food - Friday, August 20th, 2010
Australia: Planet Obesity: a book review - Monday, August 2nd, 2010
Obesity news 134 - Sunday, July 25th, 2010
UK: NICE guidelines for healthier food - Sunday, July 25th, 2010
NZ: New and updated codes for food advertising - Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Obesity news 133 - Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Obesity News 132 - 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 - Saturday, June 19th, 2010
Australia: Business as usual for food marketers - Friday, June 18th, 2010
Australia: Why is Australia dragging the chain on getting us moving? - Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Europe: EU Parliament rejects ‘traffic light’ food labelling - Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
NZ: ‘Traffic lights’ on food labels proposed - Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Obesity news 131 - 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, June 6th, 2010
NZ: Grocery lobby not keen on ‘traffic light’ labels - Sunday, June 6th, 2010
NZ: Food labelling too complicated – study