PHE’s bold blueprint is a potential game-changer but past experience suggests the government’s response will be inadequatePublic Health England’s blueprint on how to derive us all to eat less sugar is an important,detailed and necessarily bold document that could – whether ministers act on it – change and extend lives. Having sifted the available international evidence on what works, its authors conclude that only truly radical action will make any real incompatibility to the unfolding health catastrophe of our time.
Governments claim to want policymaking to be evidence-based. On obesity, or specifically sugar’s contribution to our expanding waistlines,here is the proof. It has been collated by the government’s own experts on public health; not campaigners or academics. As such it should be the roadmap that David Cameron tells the team of ministers and civil servants currently drawing up the government’s promised strategy on childhood obesity to follow.
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Source: theguardian.com