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Last update: Wednesday 25th March
 
Replacing consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages with water could eliminate an average of 235 excess calories per day among children and adolescents, according to a study published in April 2009.
Food and DrinkThe Sentinel - 2nd May 2016
 
Parents and doctors in North Staffordshire are backing calls for a ban on junk food advertising before the 9pm TV watershed in a bid to cut childhood obesity...Now a survey published by Cancer Research UK has revealed growing support for the move in the region. The YouGov poll found that 71 per cent of the public in Staffordshire and the West Midlands supported a ban on junk food adverts before the 9pm watershed.
Food and DrinkThe Sentinel - February 16th 2016
 
Although the causes are disputed, there is no denying food poverty remains an issue in modern Britain. According to the Trussell Trust - the biggest foodbank organisation in the country - more than a million three day emergency supplies of food were handed out across the country between April 2014 and April 2015, a figure that has increased dramatically year on year.
Food and DrinkThe Sentinel – 18 March 2016
 
Asda has announced a U-turn on its decision to remove food bank collection points from its UK stores, following pressure from charities.
Food and DrinkCivil Society News - 26th February 2016
 
Meat this week took centre stage as the World Health Organisation yesterday declared its connection with bowel cancer. The organisation said cured and processed meats were carcinogenic to humans. This new ranking puts processed and cured meat up there with alcohol, arsenic, cigarettes and even asbestos in terms of its ability to cause cancer.
Food and DrinkThe Sentinel - October 27th 2015
 
A sugar tax and cutting buy-one-get-one-free deals are part Public Health England’s ‘key actions’ to tackle people’s addiction to sugar. Their long awaited report says the nation is ‘eating too much sugar’ leading to health problems and obesity. The report also called for less marketing aimed at children in-store, on TV and online...The report says achieving these levels could save the NHS £500m a year, but admitted no single measure would be effective.
Food and DrinkThe Sentinel - 23rd October 2015
 
The Country’s favourite delicacy should be recognised as a ‘true Staffordshire custom’ according to labour MEP. As the potteries celebrated its annual Oatcake day at the weekend, Sion Simon, above said the dish should be recognised at European level by gaining protected Geographical Indication (PGI) Status.
Food and DrinkThe Sentinel - 10th August 2015
 
Missing out on free school meals for just one week at half term is tipping some families into acute food poverty, according to charity workers familiar with demand patterns at food banks. Food banks are now facing spikes in referrals of families with children over even one-week holidays when youngsters miss out on their school lunches.
Food and DrinkBible Society - 13th March 2015
 
8,318 tons of food were donated to UK Food Banks in 2013-14. Approximately 30,000 people volunteered. 913,138 people were given three days worth of emergency food and support. (330,225 of whom were children). Primary causes of food bank use include benefit delays , low income and benefit changes. Regionally the highest number of food bank users were in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Northeast and the Northwest.
Food and Drink(Source: UK Food Bank Statistics (2013-14)) and Christianity - Feb 2015
 
Oatcakes served up at a Potteries takeaway have been named as one of the 25 best breakfasts in Britain.
Food and DrinkThe Sentinel - 30 December 2014
 
Many big supermarkets have reacted to the challenge issued by MPs and the Church of England to help tackle food poverty by helping to give away their surplus food. The All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Hunger in the UK, which is backed by the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, warned that the nation's food industry wastes 4.3 million tonnes of food every year. The actions come after the Trussell Trust reported that it has seen the number of its food banks rocket from 40,898 outlets in 2009/10 to 913,138 in 2013/2014.
Food and DrinkBible Society - 12th December 2014
 
Supermarkets must double the amount of unwanted food they hand out to Britain’s hungry to help to combat ‘immoral’ levels of waste, a parliamentary inquiry has warned.

The inquiry, which has the backing of the Archbishop of Canterbury, has called on retailers to cut the amount of surplus food disposed of in landfill by 100,000 tones by the end of the decade.
Food and DrinkBible Society - 6th June 2014
 
Government officials have ordered Stoke-on-Trent City Council to check that lamb curries and kebabs being sold by takeaways don’t contain any other meat. It comes after the Foods Standards Agency (FSA) found that 43 out of 145 samples of lamb takeaways in London and Birmingham were wrongly described. The FSA said 25 were found to contain only beef, which is cheaper than lamb, while chicken and turkey were discovered in the other samples. Now local authorities across the country are being asked to test 300 samples of lamb from takeaways in their area, starting next month. The crackdown comes after one city takeaway was shut down after experts discovered one of their lamb curries was, in fact, beef.
Food and DrinkThe Sentinel, April 18, 2014
 
Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders have said shoppers must be told how animals have been slaughtered including on products that are not kosher or halal.
Food and DrinkThe Daily Telegraph - 7th May 2014 (re-published by Bible Society)
 
Genetically modified (GM) foods are probably safer than those produced using conventional farming methods, according to Environment Secretary Owen Paterson. Mr Paterson attacked critics who described GM produce as “Frankenfoods”, insisting the crops could have important environmental benefits and help save lives in poorer countries.
Food and DrinkThe Sentinel – June 21, 2013
 
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