Parents of primary school aged children in the UK are calling for brands to include the colour coded nutritional information (known as the traffic light system) on the front of their packaging, to enable them to make a more informed choice when it comes to healthy food for their children’s lunchboxes. That is according to […]
YAZOO KiDS is proud to be supporting Change4Life this year, a move that will see the ‘Good Choice badge alongside bottles of Strawberry and Banana packs in store and within its marketing mix across the country. With its unique no added sugars or sweeteners recipe, YAZOO KiDS provides a simple swap for families to make in their […]
Dairy Crest has revamped its Cathedral City Kids Snacking range with a move to lighter cheese for an improved nutrition profile and a new on-pack partnership with Nickelodeon to enhance appeal to families. From 10th October, packs across the full Cathedral City Kids’ Snacks range will be moving to 30% less fat ‘Mild Lighter’ cheese, […]
Public Health England (PHE) is helping parents take control of their children’s snacking by launching the first Change4Life campaign promoting healthier snacks. This is because half of children’s sugar intake, currently around 7 sugar cubes a day, comes from unhealthy snacks and sugary drinks , leading to obesity and dental decay. Each year children […]
Change4Life has launched a food tracker app in its annual January health push, helping parents keep an eye on kids’ salt, sugar and fat intake. Be Food Smart builds on Public Health England’s sugar tracking app in 2016. The latter was a runaway success with more than two million downloads. It works in a similar […]
Public Health England (PHE) has launched its first hackathon in Manchester, inviting developers to come up with apps and other digital services to encourage healthy living in children. The initiative follows the success of PHE’s Change4Life campaign in January, centring on an app which measures how much sugar is contained in day-to-day products. Four months […]
A new app that tells parents and children how much sugar is in the food they eat has been launched by Public Health England (PHE) in a bid to combat obesity and encourage families to lead a healthier lifestyle. The new Sugar Smart app forms part of PHE’s latest Change4Life campaign and allows users to […]
[fvplayer src=”https://www.fabnews.live/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/SmartSwaps-40s-TVC.webm” src1=”https://www.fabnews.live/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/SmartSwaps-40s-TVC.webm” width=”600″ height=”360″] Change4Life, the UK Government’s healthy living drive, has unveiled its traditional January campaign which this year focuses on encouraging parents to reduce the sugar intake of their children by making product swaps. The £2.6m ‘Sugar Swaps’ campaign, created by M&C Saatchi, launches January 5 across TV, radio, digital and outdoor […]
A look at the effectiveness of the Government TV campaign targeting obesity after supermarkets agree voluntary 'traffic light' food labelling.
Obesity is a serious concern for the United Kingdom, with as much as two-thirds of men and almost as many women now being overweight, according to an NHS report. In England 24% of men and 26% of women are obese, while 65% of men and 58% of women are either overweight or obese. These figures […]