{"id":3277,"date":"2009-06-05T22:29:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T20:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:38:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:38:24","slug":"british-retailers-are-committed-in-the-fight-against-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=3277","title":{"rendered":"New report: British retailers are committed in the fight against obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brc.org.uk\/downloads\/british_retailing_a_commitment_to_health.pdf\" class=\"broken_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3280 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"british retailing: a commitment to health\" src=\"http:\/\/morten.me\/wp-content\/brc.png\" alt=\"british retailing: a commitment to health\" width=\"200\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a>The British Retail Consortium (BRC) just published a substantial catalogue of evidence from its major food retailing members. It shows they are responding to customer demand in the UK&#8217;s highly competitive grocery market and delivering healthier choices, food information and actual change in what customers buy &#8211; more comprehensively than legislation ever could.<\/p>\n<p>From reducing salt, fat and sugar to portion size options, promotions and on-pack labelling, BRC members are enabling healthier choices which are being taken up by customers.<\/p>\n<p>What we&#8217;re seeing is responsible retailers enthusiastically putting their resources and reputations firmly behind making their contribution to healthier diets.<\/p>\n<p>The report covers a string of current food-retailing issues including: Labelling, Reformulation and Portion sizes.<\/p>\n<p>Increasing consumption of healthy foods is really happening.\u00a0 One step that has made a real difference has been running price promotions on fruit and vegetables and the introduction of ranges of highly nutritious but lower cosmetic quality produce.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brc.org.uk\/downloads\/british_retailing_a_commitment_to_health.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Retail Consortium (BRC) just published a substantial catalogue of evidence from its major food retailing members. It shows they are responding to customer demand in the UK&#8217;s highly competitive grocery market and delivering healthier choices, food information and actual change in what customers buy &#8211; more comprehensively than legislation ever could. From reducing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,25,20,13,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4331,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions\/4331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}