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Tag: Nutrition

  • Nutrition, key factor in life expectancy drop

    04 Apr 2025

    The rise in human life expectancy has slowed down across Europe since 2011, according to research from the University of East Anglia. A new study, published in The Lancet Publ...

    Tags: Life expectancy, NCDs, Nutrition

  • The importance of consumer communication on ultra-processed foods is highlighted by experts

    01 Dec 2023

    Nowadays, consumers are most likely to choose a non processed product or a low processed product. Brands are called by Mintel to promote self-education regarding health implication...

    Tags: consumer information, Nutrition, ultra-processed foods

  • MEP calls for health education in schools to tackle obesity

    08 Jun 2022

    As obesity continues to rise alarmingly in Europe, MEP Tudor Ciuhodaru (Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats – Romania) calls on the European Commission to reinforce ...

    Tags: Children, European Parliament, Food Literacy, Nutrition, Obesity

  • New evidence on a potential correlation between the consumption of ultra-processed foods and early death

    25 Jan 2022

    The term ‘ultra-processed foods’ refers to products that have undergone a substantial amount of industrial processing and whose nutritional labels generally report a long list ...

    Tags: Food Additives, Food Safety, Healthy diet, Nutrition, unhealthy food

  • Children’s nutrition specialists raise concerns regarding Nutri-Score

    15 Dec 2020

    Dutch consultancy Voedingsjungle, specialising in children’s nutrition, has criticised front-of-pack (FOP) nutrition labelling schemes with across-the-board algorithms such a...

    Tags: food label, Nutrition, nutrition labelling scheme, unhealthy food

  • EU NGOs suggest ways to promote nutrition in the CAP

    03 Sep 2020

    On Thursday 3 September 2020, 6 European NGOs (including SAFE and EPHA, ECL, EHN, EMSA and EONS) sent an open joint letter to Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski, suggest...

    Tags: CAP, Common Agricultural Policy, European Commission, Healthy diet, Joint letter, NGOs, Nutrition, Strategic Plans

  • Short Film Festival Filmdipeso

    04 Feb 2020

    SAFE is honoured to co-organise the Short Film Festival Filmdipeso 17-18 April 2020 in Latina, Italy With the subject of “Obesity, food, nutrition, and eating disorders“...

    Tags: Mental health, Nutrition, Obesity, Physical activity, Tackling Adolescent Obesity, TAO

  • New study finding association between consumption of ultra-processed foods and cancer risk

    13 Feb 2019

    A large prospective study from NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort further showed a correlation between ultra-processed foods and cancer. A 10% increase in the intake of ultra-pro...

    Tags: Cancer, Healthy diet, Nutrition

  • UN stays silent on fat tax and labelling

    19 Dec 2018

    Last week, the United Nations adopted a draft resolution on improving global nutrition. The agency called for improved education to tackle obesity, but remained silent on key issue...

    Tags: Food Safety, Labelling, Nutrition, Obesity, United Nations

  • Building momentum: lessons on implementing a robust sugar sweetened beverage tax

    20 Jul 2018

    This recent report from the World Cancer Research Fund International provides guidance about designing, defending and implementing a robust SSB tax, drawing lessons from countries ...

    Tags: Nutrition, Sugar, Sugar tax

  • ‘Enormous potential for the nutrition of millions’: Savanna Ingredients develops natural sugar without calories

    27 Jun 2018

    Germany’s Savanna Ingredients has developed a process to produce allulose – “real sugar without calories” – on a mass scale. The group expects to achieve European...

    Tags: EU, Healthy diet, Nutrition, Sugar

  • Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth

    20 Jun 2018

    Avoiding meat and dairy products is the single biggest way to reduce your environmental impact on the planet, according to the scientists behind the most comprehensive analysis to ...

    Tags: Agriculture, Climate Change, Environment, Meat, Nutrition, Vegan

  • Zucchero, la dose giornaliera da non superare

    18 Jun 2018

    Resistere allo zucchero sarebbe davvero una gran brutta vita, ma gli studi dell’Organizzazione mondiale della sanità, dell’Agenzia Internazionale della ricerca sul cancro e de...

    Tags: Healthy diet, Italy, Nutrition, Obesity, Sugar, WHO

  • DSM removes benzoate from cheese ripening enzyme to meet clean-label demand

    13 Jun 2018

    Dutch health and nutrition company Royal DSM says its Accelerzyme CPG, the company’s proprietary enzyme for accelerated cheese ripening, is now benzoate-free. Read the full artic...

    Tags: Consumers, Food Safety, Nutrition

  • Young people who ‘watch more junk food ads’ consume ‘thousands more calories’

    23 May 2018

    According to a new study carried out by Cancer Research UK, teenagers who watch an extra junk food advert per week consume an extra 18,000 calories a year. The research will be pre...

    Tags: Consumers, Healthy diet, Nutrition, Obesity

  • Evolved Nutrition Label to be launched in some EU countries

    04 May 2018

    Mondelēz International, Nestlé, PepsiCo, The Coca-Cola Company and Unilever will start to add the Evolved Nutrition Label (ENL) to products in some EU countries, they announced o...

    Tags: Consumers, Food Packaging, Healthy diet, Labelling, Nutrition, Transparency

  • Soft drinks tax is of greatest benefit to poorer households: Lancet

    10 Apr 2018

    Taxes levied on sweetened drinks and snack foods are of most benefit to the poor in helping to make long-term healthy lifestyle changes, a Lancet study concludes. Read more on Food...

    Tags: Consumers, Healthy diet, Nutrition, Obesity, Soft-drinks tax, Sugar

  • Taxing soda and booze can spark healthy spiral, experts say

    05 Apr 2018

    According to a new analysis published in The Lancet medical journal, taxing products such as soda, alcohol and tobacco can steer consumers toward healthier choices and avert a ruin...

    Tags: Consumers, Healthy diet, Nutrition, Obesity, Soft-drinks tax, Sugar

  • Big Sugar Versus Your Body

    11 Mar 2018

    Most of us eat a lot of sugar. We are surrounded by it, and it’s delicious. Unfortunately, sugar also encourages overeating and causes health problems. Research consistently poin...

    Tags: Consumers, Healthy diet, Nutrition, Obesity, Sugar

  • In Sweeping War on Obesity, Chile Slays Tony the Tiger

    07 Feb 2018

    Facing skyrocketing rates of obesity, the Chilean government is waging war on unhealthy foods with a phalanx of marketing restrictions, mandatory packaging redesigns and labeling r...

    Tags: Children, Consumers, Food Packaging, Food Safety, Healthy diet, Labelling, Nutrition, Obesity, Sugar

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