NCD Prevention and Food Policy Research Group

Media Coverage

  • Cancer in the community symposium. Radio City News (18/11/2014), Juice fm and Echo (Link)
  • Trust me I'm a doctor. Should we all be cutting right back on sugar? Prof Simon Capewell explains why he personally thinks so. Link
  • The World Tonight. BBC Radio 4. Obesity Interview Starts at minute 15.00, goes to about minute 23.00). Link 
  • DriveTime. Dental decay in children, Sugar duties. BBC Radio Mersey, (16th& 30th/09/2014)
  • Guardian Article. End this sugar rush – it's the only way to tackle the obesity crisis. Attempts to reduce sugar content in food and drinks have failed in the face of Big Food. Legislation is now necessary. S Capewell. The Guardian, Thursday 26 June 2014 (457 Comments received). Link
  • Front Pages of Guardian & Telegraph: “Healthy diet means 10 portions of fruit and vegetables per day, not five”; BBC Radio5Live; BBC Merseyside; etc
  • Sugar killer? Sweetened beverages should contain warning labels just like cigarettes, says a British expert. Link
  • BBC News website; Sky TV News; BBC Radio 4 PM; Daily Mail (front page); Telegraph, Independent; Times; Liverpool Echo etc. Action On Sugar launch “Is Sugar the new tobacco??”, (9/1/2014). Link
  • D Taylor Robinson: food poverty coverage, (May 2014)
  • 120 outlets (papers, radio and TV to disseminate recent BMJ Personal View on California’s Warning Labels on Sugary Drinks, (27/5/14). Link
  • BBC 5 Live. For and Against a Sugar Tax. Link
  • Sheila Fogarty Show. Trans Fat bans and health. BBC Radio 5 Live, (9/11/2013)
  • Stephen Nolan Show. Obesity, Fat taxes and the Government’s Responsibility Deal. BBC Radio 5 Live, (26/10/2013)
  • Today programme. Traffic Light Food Labelling. BBC Radio 4; also: BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast; & BBC Radio Merseyside Drivetime (19/6/2013). Link
  • BBC Good Morning Wales: Obesity and regulations for sugar, (22/5/2013). Link
  • Sunday Politics: Inequalities and the North/South Divide BBC1 TV, (23/6/2013). Link
  • Newsnight: Sugar & diabetes (27/2/2013) BBC2 TV. Link
  • BBC Radio 4, The Media Show: Junk food advertising debate, (20/2/2013). Link
  • Shelagh Fogarty programme: Obesity BBC Radio 5 Live, (11/8/2012). 
  • BBC Radio 4, You and Yours. Tackling the obesity problem, (16/7/2012).
  • Leading article, The Independant: Of fat – and ministerial feebleness, (26/8/2012).
  • ESC says 50% of CVD deaths in Europe could be avoided with proper regulation, (24/07/12).
  • Channel 4: Dispatches. Myths about Your 5 a Day, (16/7/2012).
  • The Men Who Made Us Fat, Episode 3, BBC2, (12/7/2012). Link
  • Bans and labelling helped to reduce Americans’ trans fat levels by 58% BMJ News, (Published 13 February 2012). Link 
  • Food Stories: What Happened Next? Transfats Update. Sheila Dillon, The Food Programme. BBC Radio 4, (8/01/2012)
  • Panorama: Dying For A Drink, BBC One TV, (1/08/2011)
  • Food and Transfats. Sheila Dillon, The Food Programme. BBC Radio 4, (10/07/2011) (This won the Guild of Food Writers' award in May 2012)
  • My take-a-way lifestyle was killing me. Rishi Rich, BBC Asian Network Report Special, (23/05/2011).
  • Food and the coalition. Sheila Dillon, The Food Programme. BBC Radio 4, (20/02/2011)