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I’m fat and I’m fine with the new measures
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Research since the start of the pandemic suggests that the overweight are at a significantly higher risk of contracting the virus, so reducing the amount of obesity would be a good thing
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MATT KERR takes stock of a night of by-elections, where the long repeated warnings for Labour and the political class remain stubbornly unheeded
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Despite forming most of Britain’s trade union membership, women continue to endure harassment, inequality and minimal support for their sex-based rights, warns VALERIE COULTAS
YESTERDAY the government announced the introduction of a new series of measures aimed at reducing the amount of crap food that people have access to.
This is primarily taking the form of reducing and removing the availability of “buy one, get one free” offers on particularly unhealthy meals, but it also includes a ban on junk-food advertising before 9pm, a variety of consultations and national awareness campaigns and, possibly, the banning of online advertising of junk food altogether.
A reduction in obesity levels would obviously be a good thing, but against the backdrop of the coronavirus crisis it is particularly important.
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