December

• RCPCH: Paediatricians call out unregulated, high sugar and salt baby foods (27th December)
• Obesity Action Scotland: 'Tis the season for sugary festive drinks this Christmas (16th December)
• Action on Sugar comment: Government confirms delay for restrictions on advertising of unhealthy food to 2025 (9th December)
• NEW Report: Government publish final sugar reduction programme report (1st December)

November

• Food Ingredients First: Nestlé plans to halt marketing confectionery and ice cream to children under 16 (28th November)
• Action on Sugar Comment: DHSC - New obesity treatments and technology to save the NHS billions (28th November)
• Footprint: Foodservice urged to be more transparent on nutrition (17th November)
• Action on Sugar Release: Call for a Clampdown on Misleading Nutrition and Health Claims on Baby & Toddler Food and Drink Hiding High Levels of Sugar (16th November)
• Open Access Government: The UK must get serious about sugar reduction (AoS comment) (15th November)
• Daily Mail: Revealed: How Christmas drinks sold by the likes of Starbucks, Costa and Pret contain as much sugar as THREE Krispy Kreme doughnuts and more calories than a McDonald's Cheeseburger (AoS comment) (11th November)
• NHS Digital: National Child measurement Programme 21-22 (3rd November)

October

• North Wales Live: Liz Truss set to scrap junk food ban at Asda, Aldi, Tesco, Lidl, and Sainsbury's (AoS comment) (7th October)
• Daily Mail: More calories than a cheeseburger, FOUR TIMES more sugar than a doughnut and saltier than TWO packets of Walkers' crisps: How autumn, pumpkin-flavoured drinks at Costa, Starbucks and Pret stack up nutritionally (6th October)
• Confectionery Production: UK government’s business secretary calls for ‘Freedom for chocolate oranges’ (AoS comment) (5th October)
• Sky News: Shops in England banned from displaying junk food near entrances and tills from today (1st October)

September

• Action on Sugar Comment: Leading Charities & Health Organisations Raise Concern Over Review of UK Obesity Strategy (22nd September)
• Food Ingredients First: U-turn on UK sugar tax? Health bodies hold breath as Truss considers scrapping soft drinks levy (AoS comment) (20th September)
• Action on Sugar comment: UK Government reviewing obesity strategy (15th September)
• Action on Sugar Update: Katharine Jenner leaving post of Director (2nd September)

August

• Food Navigator: Nutri-Score blocks ‘health-halo’ effects caused by claims on sugar, but should such claims be allowed at all? (AoS comment) (18th August)
• The Mirror: Costa Coffee blasted as new drinks contain same sugar content as TWO McDonald's doughnuts (AoS comment) (13th August)
• National World: Doctors slam Liz Truss plan to scrap ban on junk food ‘buy one get one free’ offers as childhood obesity soars (AoS comment) (4th August)
• The Telegraph: How food manufacturers con parents into giving kids sweet treats (AoS comment) (2nd August)

July

• The BMJ: England’s food strategy: missed opportunity to use fiscal food policy levers to improve diets and reduce health inequalities (25th July)
• The Guardian: Children pushed to eat junk food over holidays by UK government campaign (24th July)
• Food Ingredients 1st: Researchers sound alarm over increased dieting trends and eating disorders across UK (21st July)
• Nutrition Insight: Alarmingly poor nutrition causing stunting across UK, Food Foundation report reveals (AoS comment) (20th July)
• Daily Mail: Calorie-defying 'healthier' chocolate, doughnuts and ice cream: How UK's snacking revolution may be only way of stopping our favourite treats being hit with cigarette-style warnings (AoS comment) (20th July)
• National Child Measurement Programme: National Child Measurement Programme, England, Provisional 2021/22 School Year Outputs (19th July)
• The Food Foundation: The Broken Plate Report (AoS Collaboration) (19th July)
• The Grocer: Kellogg’s court defeat: why do major producers refuse to reformulate? (18th July)
• Action on Sugar Comment: High Court rules against Kellogg’s – Public Health Win (4th July)
• Food Foundation: Broken Plate Report (AoS collaboration) (19th July)
• British Dental Association:  Dentists call for sweeping action on baby pouches (AoS comment) (8th July)

June

• Hampshire Chronicle: Steve Brine MP welcomes 'thoughtful' food strategy but questions lack of action on salt and sugar (25th June)
• Sustain: Anniversary of Government’s Child Obesity Plan finds 70% of commitments delayed or disappeared (24th June)
• British Baker: Price trumps taste in consumers’ healthier food choices (AoS comment) (24th June)
• British Baker: Why bakers should focus on health despite government delays (AoS comment) (17th June)
• Food Ingrdients 1st: Alcohol labeling fails consumers” by not displaying health and nutritional information (15th June)
• Food Ingrdients 1st: UK’s Food Strategy falls short and fails to address the real issues about food, say critics (AoS comment) (13th June)
• The Grocer: Health groups vent fury over ‘watered down’ National Food Strategy (13th June)
• GB News: Tory MP calls for new tax on sugar and salt as UK 'storing up obesity' (13th June)
• Action on Sugar Comment: Early years food remains a ‘policy black hole’ in newly published Government Food Strategy (13th June)
• Baker Info: Campaign group denounces government policy on sugar and salt (AoS comment) (13th June) 
• Confectionery Production: UK government to reject taxes on sugar and salt within key confectionery and snacks ranges (AoS comment) (11th June)
• Daily Mail: EXCLUSIVE: Major probe is launched into American candy stores taking over London's once iconic shopping destinations including Oxford Street... as it emerges owners are using TikTok trend to lure children to buy illegal sugar-rich sweets (AoS comment) (10th June)
• Barnsley Chronicle: Strict restrictions on junk food adverts brought in (10th June)
• The Sun: No Frapping Way - I worked at Starbucks – the drink which contains 3.5 times your daily sugar intake & almost as calorific as a Big Mac (6th June)
• Glasgow Live: Glasgow obesity concerns as 140 new fast-food takeaways open up in city since 2015 (AoS comment) (4th June)

May

• The Independent: Supermarkets push forward with curbs on unhealthy food despite Government delays (20th May)
• The Grocer: Industry is more than capable of adapting to HFSS laws – regardless of the objections (AoS comment) (19th May)
• BBC News: Obesity strategy delay immoral, shallow and weak - ex-Tory leader (17th May)
• The Mail: Simon Fell says he was against ban on multi-buy deals for unhealthy foods 'from the outset' (18th May)
• LBC: In full: Jamie Oliver's open letter to Boris Johnson on child obesity (17th May)
• Food Manufacture: Government delays restrictions on HFSS promotions (AoS comment)(16th May)
• The Guardian: Delay to junk food ads ban could ‘blow a hole’ in UK obesity strategy (14th May)
• BBC News: Junk food: Obesity strategy falling apart, Jamie Oliver says (14th May)
• Action on Sugar Comment:Government delays restrictions on multibuy deals and advertising on TV and online (14th May)
• Department of Health and Social Care: Government delays restrictions on multibuy deals and advertising on TV and online (14th May)
• Food Navigator: Tesco named UK’s ‘healthiest’ supermarket… but ‘performance across the board is poor’ (13th May)
• Wales Online: Supermarket meal deals should be 'illegal' says obesity expert (13th May)
• Daily Mail: Don't be fooled by so-called 'healthy' crisps! Popped alternatives can have nearly TWICE as many calories and salt as bog-standard versions like Quavers and Skips (AoS comment) (10th May)
• The Grocer: HFSS promotions ban in chaos after fresh reports of government u-turn (11th May)
• The BMJ: New calorie labelling regulations in England (4th May)
• iNews: How a decade of UK obesity policy failures led to current rates reaching “epidemic proportions” (3rd May)
• Food Manufacture: Food manufacturers under fire over 'no added sugar' in children's foods (3rd May)
• The Telegraph: Children eat three times as much sugar as they should do (1st May)

April

• Financial Times: We have been Big Food’s lab rats for too long (29th April)
• NewFood Magazine: Why Kellogg’s is not happy with HFSS regulations (AoS comment) (29th April) 
• Daily Mail: More sugar than a DOUGHNUT, saltier than a pack of crisps and just as many calories as a Mars bar: How Kellogg's cereals REALLY fare nutritionally as food giant takes ministers to court over junk food ruling (AoS comment) (27th April)
• Beverage Daily: Why hasn’t London’s HFSS advertising ban on transport cut calorie intake from sugary drinks? (26th April)
• Financial Times: Investors push Nestlé and Kraft Heinz to set new health targets (25th April)
• The Guardian: Growing gap in healthy life expectancy between poorest and richest in England (25th April)
• Confectionery News: Food companies failing to reduce sugar in cookies and brownies (AoS comment) (20th April)
• Daily Mail: Just how bad for you is YOUR favourite milkshake? Popular options sold at chains like Five Guys and Shake Shack can be packed with 1,200 calories - the same as FOUR cheeseburgers (and don't forget the 100g of sugar!) (AoS comment) (19th April)
• The Guardian: Last rites? Supermarkets’ annual Easter egg bonanza to end (16th April)
• Daily Mail: Nando's is forced to scrap its popular bottomless drinks option for high-sugar beverages due to government strategy to tackle obesity (14th April)
• Open Access Government: Public health interventions necessary to fight childhood obesity (AoS) 13th April)
• The Guardian: English cricket on back foot after ad watchdog bans junk food campaign (13th April)
• Daily Mail: Revealed: Branded cereals can be nearly 30 TIMES saltier and contain TWICE as much sugar as cheaper supermarket-own versions (12th April)
• Local Government Chronicle: Exclusive: Government pulls £100m grant for tackling obesity (11th April)
• The Grocer: The towns taking junk food bans into their own hands (11th April)
• NewFood Magazine: Not everyone’s a fan of the HFSS ban (AoS comment) (11th April)
• Action on Sugar and Obesity Health Alliance Release: Call for Government to Introduce Tough New Measures on Food Companies - as they Fail to Reduce Sugar Voluntarily (8th April)
• Food Ingrdients First: UK enforces calorie-count labeling law for restaurant and takeaway menus (7th April)
• The Grocer: Sajid Javid faces pressure to release sugar reduction report (6th April)
• BBC News: Calories now appear on menus in large restaurant chains (6th April)
• UK Government: New calorie labelling rules come into force to improve nation’s health (6th April)
• The Independent: Stop delaying sugar reduction report, health organisations tell Government (6th April)
  
• The Daily Mail: Will putting meals' calorie counts on menu make you eat more healthily? Half of diners are likely to order more nutritious dishes when restaurants are forced to introduce the measure this week, study suggests (4th April)
  

March

• NewFood Magazine: Calorie labelling to become legal requirement (29th March)
• Daily Mail: The great protein branding sham: How 'muscle-building' alternatives to cereals, energy bars and milk can have more fat, sugar AND salt than their originals (and only marginally more protein) (AoS comment) (28th March)
• Daily Mail: Revealed: Supermarket hot cross buns can contain as much sugar as FOUR chocolate digestives, more calories than a Krispy Kreme doughnut and be twice as salty as a packet of Walker's ready salted crisps (AoS comment) (23rd March)
• Local Government Chronicle: Fears food strategy white paper will be delayed (23rd March)
• Beverage Daily: The reformulation journey: How Suntory has reduced sugar in its drinks (23rd March)
• The Guardian: Verdict on drive to cut sugar in UK diets now expected a year late (21st March)
• The Grocer: Calls for food labelling and ingredient rule relaxations as Ukraine crisis hits supply (18th March)
• Food Manufacture: FSA to extend reach into health and sustainability (18th March)
• British Baker: Half of businesses unready for new HFSS rules, says survey (15th March)
• The Grocer: Fifth of suppliers don’t know HFSS ban is coming, shows research (15th March)
• The Grocer: Sugar reduction report to be ‘full year’ late as doubts grow over obesity strategy (AoS comment) (9th March)
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February

• The Guardian: Campaigners urge PM to back new food bill and tackle UK obesity crisis (27th February)
• The Grocer: Rockstar energy drink core range reformulated to meet HFSS regulations (24th February)
• Telegraph: Reliance on individual behaviour change will fail to 'level up' health (23rd February)
• The Sun: Sweet Relief Your favourite sweets and crisps ‘WON’T be more expensive as Boris Johnson to rule out sugar and salt tax’ (19th February)
• The Times: Anti-obesity strategy should be at the heart of levelling up (19th February)
• iNews: Boris Johnson to rule out sugar and salt tax in food strategy, despite key recommendation from food tsar (19th February)
• LSHTM: Transport for London’s junk food advertising restrictions linked to reductions in high fat, salt and sugar product purchases (18th February)
• The Express: Hundreds of thousands of children at risk of junk food cancer diagnosis (18th February)
• The Week: Are we all addicted to sugar? (AoS comment) (17th February)
• Politics.co.uk: Health leaders’ warning to Prime Minister: Don’t U-turn on children’s health (16th February)
• The National: Wine labelling ‘woefully inadequate’, Alcohol Health Alliance members warn (AoS comment) (16th February)
• BBC News: Worrying numbers of older children having energy drinks regularly (8th February)
• BMJ Open: Consumption and effects of caffeinated energy drinks in young people: an overview of systematic reviews and secondary analysis of UK data to inform policy (7th February)
• Food Navigator: Junk food marketing is ‘prevalent everywhere’ and promotes ‘unhealthy diets’ to children: WHO (7th February)
• The Grocer: Junk food ad ban: Sajid Javid given powers to delay HFSS proposals (7th February)
• Grocery Gazette: Tesco to Bank Junk Food as it Prepared for HFSS Legislation (7th February)
• Financial Times: Rising cost of living leaves 4.7mn Britons struggling to feed themselves (6th February)
• The Times: Sajid Javid promises to stick with ban on junk food ads (5th February)
• Food Service Footprint: School Food Targeted in 'Levelling Up' Agenda (3rd February)
• MyLondonNews: 'I visited London's 'dangerous' American-style candy superstores and it wasn’t just the sugar levels I was sickened by' (AoS comment) (2nd February)
• The Times: SNP blames Westminster for school failings and child obesity (2nd February)
• UK Government: Government unveils levelling up plan that will transform UK (2nd February)
• iNews: What is the Levelling Up White Paper? Five things to watch out for as Michael Gove announces flagship policy (2nd February)
• The Grocer: Tesco and Sainsbury’s trial healthier store layouts as HFSS rules loom (2nd February)

January

• The Guardian: Calories on menus ‘may not be helpful’ in drive against obesity (23rd January)
• The Sun: SUGAR SWAP Six food swaps you can do to cut your sugar intake to lose weight… AND they save you money (21st January)
• Education Executive: The not-so-sweet truth about sugar (20th January)
• Food Navigator: Can mandatory labelling drive food system change? (19th January)
• The Times: Could the new NHS Food Scanner app change my (unhealthy) eating habits? (13th January)
• The Times: The sugar tax has predictably fallen flat and obesity continues to rise (10th January)
• The Guardian: NHS Food Scanner app will use barcodes to suggest healthier eating choices (10th January)
• Politics.co.uk: New NHS app launched to help tackle child obesity following unhealthy lockdown habits (10th January)
• UK Government: New campaign launched to help parents improve children's diet (10th January)
• The Times: The rise of obesity weighs heavily on health, wealth and wellbeing of the world (9th January)
• The Times: Caution: this column may be critical of obesity (9th January)
• Dentistry: Plans to curb obesity ‘will fail’ if no action taken on sugary food (7th January)
• FoodIngrdients 1st: Time to step up the UK’s child obesity fight: Will 2022 be a breakthrough year for change? (7th January)
• The Telegraph: Bitter row as sugar tax millions diverted away from fighting childhood obesity (3rd January)
  
• The Mirror: ‘Child obesity is complex - you can’t end it by simply saying eat less’ (2nd January)