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If sugar is killing us, why does Britain farm so much of it?
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After the anniversary of the sugar tax on soft drinks, Emily Clark looks at how the sugar beet industry affects the health of humans – and soil too

Junk food adverts on TV and online could be banned before 9pm as part of Government plans to fight the"epidemic" of childhood obesity. Plans for the new watershed have been put out for public consultation in a bid to combat the growing crisis, the Department of Health and Social Care saidOn migrating from Africa around 70,000 years ago, humans bumped into the neanderthals of Eurasia.

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