
Action on Salt
@actiononsalt
Working to lower population salt intake to 6g a day #EatLessSalt
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http://www.actiononsalt.org.uk/ 16-09-2009 13:18:40
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In amongst the general reluctance from food businesses to acknowledge their role on our health, you find a💎 This isn't the first time Nomad Foods has stood out - they've shown change can happen successfully, with their non-HFSS Goodfellas pizzas 👏👏 theguardian.com/business/2024/…

🌱📢Did you hear the Committee’s Chair, Baroness Walmsley, discussing the findings of our report on fixing our food system on BBC Radio 4? 🍏📻 You can listen back here (from 06:45): Today in Parliament - 25/10/2024 - BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…



💼Autumn Budget Announcement 💼 Soft Drinks Industry Levy to rise in line with inflation After 6 years at the same rate, this is a logical step for Labour gov to take 👏 Hopefully a promising sign of more to come under The Labour Party Keir Starmer Wes Streeting Andrew Gwynne MP

🪙The Soft Drinks Industry Levy has finally been increased in line with inflation after 6 yrs. We welcome this, & other announcements on SDIL today and urge Gov to invest this additional money into kid's health. Read the full Recipe for Change response👇 recipeforchange.org.uk/news-and-blogs…


THREE great papers out The Lancet Public Health 1. Our colleague Dr Monique Tan Centre for Public Health & Policy (CPHP) building the case for mandatory #salt targets shorturl.at/nHxhq 2. Matti Marklund + Kathy Trieu modelling study on health and cost savings of mandating sodium benchmarks in Australia + India 👏

New analysis: it is possible and affordable to halve obesity by the end of the decade, if governments implement the most effective high impact, low cost solutions. Today we launch Nesta's blueprint for halving obesity: telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/0… Camilla Turner The Telegraph

📣 The lack of progress by policymakers to tackle childhood #obesity highlighted by our Our Policy and Advocacy Manager Shona Goudie in The Times and The Sunday Times ⬇️ thetimes.com/article/5f12fc…


At Portcullis House today for the House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee launch of their report Recipe for Health. With speakers Sheila Dillon Jeanelle de Gruchy Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) Bite Back Full house!


Here is House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee key actions for government, and when they expect it. Government response to the report is due in January - a lot to digest. Will there finally be some action to fix our broken food system?


Great work by Hounslow Council to implement a policy to stop misleading & inappropriate marketing of commercial baby foods. Comments from Sustain & First Steps Nutrition Trust sustainweb.org/news/nov24-hou… sustainweb.org/news/nov24-hou…

Startling rise in strokes among Brits "These figures are shocking...the causes of stroke [high blood pressure + poor diet] are largely preventable..." We couldn't agree more Wes Streeting - which is why a strong salt reduction programme is so key! mol.im/a/14095501

