Changes primarily due to swapping in slightly lower calorie items, rather than reformulation Likely to have “moderate to limited” impact on population health, conclude researchers Calorie labelling, which became law in April 2022 in England, is associated with only a small (2%) average reduction in the energy content of food ...

Use rose by 9% in serious attempts to cut down and by 13% in any attempt to curb intake Trends especially noticeable among over 65s, women, and relatively well off There’s been a significant rise in the use of low and alcohol-free drinks to curb alcohol intake among ‘risky drinkers’ ...

Affluent twice as likely to shop online for groceries as less well off But households of lower social grade twice as likely to opt for take-away meals And users of online food delivery apps more likely to be living with obesity Social position—defined by household income and job role—is linked ...

Following concerns raised with BMJ we are investigating the quality of the research and the messaging used in Excess mortality across countries in the Western World since the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Our World in Data’ estimates of January 2020 to December 2022”, published in BMJ Public Health on 3 June 2024. An expression of ...

Despite containment and COVID-19 jabs; “serious cause for concern,” say researchers Excess death rates have remained high in the West for three years running since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, finds a data analysis of 47 countries published in the open access journal BMJ Public Health. This is despite the ...

Making much more of potential savings might encourage more people to stub out for good  Health concerns are still the primary motive for more than half of those who say they want to stop smoking in England, but cost is now a key factor for more than 1 in 4, ...

People with condition 30% more likely not to fully recover from COVID-19 infection People who are ‘double jointed,’ a condition formally known as generalised joint hypermobility, may be at heightened risk of long COVID, suggests a case-control study published in the open access journal BMJ Public Health. They were 30% ...