The government is urged to make a “decisive shift” in a bid to tackle UK obesity
Companies should be fined for failing to follow rules aimed at cutting sales of unhealthy food, to tackle the “public health emergency” posed by obesity, peers have said.
“There needs to be a total ban across all media by the end of this parliament on advertising both of HFSS food and drink and by businesses that fail to reach healthy sales targets,” the report said. The committee said that for too long there had been “a continued focus on failed policies founded on individual responsibility and voluntary regulation arising from an unjustified fear of the so-called ‘nanny state’”. Britain is facing an “epidemic” of unhealthy eating and diet-related disease that requires radical action, it warned.
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