EU health chief uses food labels to fight obesity
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The European Union's health chief wants to introduce tougher food labeling rules to combat the growing problem of obesity across Europe, but is facing stiff political and industrial opposition.
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European Union governments should work together in deciding rules for using biotech foods, rather than forge their own policies and risk inviting legal action against the 27-member bloc, the EU trade chief said Thursday.
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Scientists have pinpointed a unlikely potential weapon in the war against obesity - seaweed.
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The European Commission launches graphic images showing the damage smoking can do to people's health.
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The Government White Paper on Public Health proposes bans on smoking, junk food advertising and clearer warnings on alcohol. Health Correspondent MARK NICHOLLS looks at why we&#39;ve reached the stage where we
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The obesity epidemic needs to be tackled in the same way as climate change, says a top nutritional scientist.
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The European Unionâs future Health Chief Markos Kyprianou has vowed to fight smoking, insisting that cigarettes are one of the greatest evils the European Union should strive to put a stop to.
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WASHINGTON Nov 1, 2004 - Food containing olive oil can carry labels saying they may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, the government says, citing limited evidence from a dozen scientific studies about the benefits of monounsaturated fats.
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Foods that contain olive oil can start carrying labels that say they may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, the number one killer of both men and women in the United States, the US Food and Drug Administration said Monday.
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A senior EU official said on Thursday  urgent action was needed to tackle obesity among Europe's young  and warned the food industry it faced legislation in a year  unless it stopped advertising junk food to children.
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Ministers are committed to enforcing a  "single, simple" food labelling system as part of plans to tackle obesity.
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You may think that a genuine interest in consumer health prompts food companies to market products that claim to reduce the risk of heart disease or cancer or help people lose weight.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium  -- The European Union unveiled a new anti-smoking campaign that calls on governments to put both horrific and humorous pictures on cigarette packs to deter people from smoking.
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Scientists called on the EUâs ageing population today to improve their diet in an attempt to contain such debilitating problems like Alzheimerâs, osteoporosis and colon cancer.
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British and Irish consumers may have  to eat paler breakfast sausages and burgers after the European  Union banned the use of a red food coloring, Red 2G, in the  European Union due to concern it could cause cancer.
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EU ministers ended 18 months of squabbling on Tuesday over new rules for organic farming and came up with a labeling system that will tell consumers exactly what they are buying on the supermarket shelves.
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Governments must wake up to the scourge of obesity or it will soon be too late to win the battle against the global epidemic, a senior World Health Organization official warned.