Health watchdog attacks food industry in hard hitting report but is dismissed by the government as having over-reached itself
Sarah Boseley, health editor - The Guardian, Tuesday 22 June 2010
Health watchdog Nice suggests that a series of changes to convenience foods would save thousands of lives. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian
Tens of thousands of lives could be saved if major changes were made to processed and convenience foods, the UK's leading health watchdog will say today, challenging the government and the food industry to act to improve the nation's diet.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) will say in a major hard-hitting report that diet is not just a matter for the individual consumer. In what will be interpreted as a significant attack on the food industry, it recommends a series of changes, including:
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At a recent lecture on health cost/benefits at the Royal Society of Medicine I was able to ask NICE's Chairman, Sir Michael Rawlins, how much NICE was looking at health generation rather than treatments, including particularly nutrition from before conception and attention to stress in pregnancy. he agreed that they should be looking in this direction and intended to do so. SHH
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