Calls to the UK Government for more restrictions

As mentioned in the post "Titanic Clash - PF and Food is Medicine" , there are significant movements underway to improve the nation's nutrition. There are multiple grassroots efforts through Metabolic Revolution , Bite Back ; individual efforts of Erin W. Martin Carter Williams Jean Terranova Dariush Mozaffarian , Ellen Brown , Katie Stebbins , Courtney Younglove, M.D., FOMA, FACOG, DABOM , Christo B. Vermeulen RPh, MBA , Hennie Myburgh , Iliana Aguilar , Adam Melonas Robert Lustig , Robert Lufkin MD , Casey Means, MD ; Calley Means ; Marty Makary M.D., M.P.H. , Alison Brown, PhD, RDN , Shannon Davis, RD, LD ; foundations @Kaiser , Tufts University, Clareo, Rockefeller Foundation, and Milken Institute ; congressmen - Bernie Sanders, Ron Johnson, Cory Booker, Richard Blumenthal; and along with multiple efforts in USDA and significant research study of Kevin Hall to name a few.

Food Developments in the UK

Overseas in the UK , there is a noteworthy movement that is calling for food retailers to tighten food regulations to tackle unhealthy diets.

Tesco, Iceland and Nomads Foods have come together to urge for mandatory reporting on the percentages of profit made from sales of products of high in fat, salt and sugar, reported the Financial Times.

In the FT article,

Investors have been increasing pressure on food companies to set more ambitious health and nutrition targets in order to de-risk their portfolios from the environmental and social impacts of unhealthy food. However, asset managers said that in the absence of regulation, companies lacked incentives for real change, whether to reformulate their products to make them healthier or to record nutritional and environmental data.

These organizations are rallying together to address the growing concern with childhood obesity crisis by having food retailers report their sales and profits by the culprits that is driving the epidemic.

Here "in the states", as I pointed out in this post, each passing generation is greeted with higher and higher caloric environments for which our metabolism cannot handle. Generation Alpha is susceptible to earlier stages of being overweight, obese, diabetic and multiple chronic illnesses that will make a challenging lifelong journey of health.

In the article, Tesco (supermarket retailer) representative commented,

“We’ve got a massive role to play but to make a real difference, we need the whole industry to play by the same rules,” Turnbull said. “We believe the reformulation wouldn’t have happened at the same scale and pace if it hadn’t been for the [HFSS] legislation. It drove change.”

Final Comment

As a dot connector, I am always on the lookout for news that may impact the food revolution in the United States and the obesity crisis that have been decades long in the making. By looking overseas, we can see how other governments and businesses are acting and behaving to tackle their own obesity issues. This could lead to new calls of action and potentially legislation in adopting some of the recommendations from peer nations here in the United States.

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Joseph W. Sunderman is an Intelligence Analyst/Strategist that is a student of understanding the Current State of the US Health and its impact for the next decade. I developed the thesis over several months for Directions Research Group for which a white paper has been published and can be found in my projects section of my LinkedIn profile.

?In the past, Joe spent seven years at medical device giant Ethicon (division of Johnson & Johnson) with the most recent role as US Regional Manager of Strategic Insights and Pricing.? In his seven years at JNJ, he received recognition for his servant leadership, where he was a stand out in performance by being a top 10% recipient of Encore and Inspire Awards over multiple years.? Dozens and dozens of accolades from contributors to senior leaders for his collaborative work.? Prior to Ethicon, Joe has had a wide variety of experiences in medical claims, banking, publishing, and retail.? He began his career at Schaeffer's Investment Research as a financial analyst, where he was ranked by Bridge Information Systems as one of the top 10 market analysts for three straight years for his commentary and stock picks found in Schaeffer's Daily Bulletin. Joe has been published in the Market Pulse Journal and Chartpoint and his market comments have been printed in the USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Investor's Business Daily, Dow Jones News Wire, and Reuters. Also, Joe has made appearances on Bloomberg television.