ACCORDING TO dubious research cooked up for a marketing campaign a few years ago the third Monday of January deserves the title of “Blue Monday”. That’s when people are at their most miserable, thanks to a combination of post-Christmas blues, cold dark nights and the arrival of unpaid credit card bills. This year it fell on [...]
THE LIGHT-TOUCH approach to healthy food policy concerns campaigners, but the government and food businesses are now in contact more than ever – and it’s making a difference, Phil Hooper tells David Burrows. It’s no secret the coalition government likes to nudge rather than push. Nudging, an idea popularised by academics Richard Thaler and Cass [...]
LEADING PERSONALITIES from the foodservice and hospitality industries, including the likes of Raymond Blanc OBE, LACA’s Anne Bull and Westminster Kingsway’s Gary Hunter, teamed-up with health and nutrition expert Dr Susan Jebb and Sodexo Health Ambassador Matt Dawson MBE to recognise healthy best practice within foodservice. The high profile judging panel this afternoon rewarded those [...]
LEADING PERSONALITIES from the foodservice and hospitality industries, including the likes of Raymond Blanc OBE, LACA’s Anne Bull and Westminster Kingsway’s Gary Hunter, teamed-up with health and nutrition expert Dr Susan Jebb and Sodexo Health Ambassador Matt Dawson MBE to recognise healthy best practice within foodservice. The high profile judging panel this afternoon rewarded those [...]
A BRAND NEW campaign exposing the hidden nasties in everyday foods and helping people become food smart has been launched by the Department of Health. The campaign, which comes on the back of new research showing that UK consumers still have limited knowledge about [...]
A NUMBER of organisations sufficiently advanced in the health, nutrition and vitality arena will be rewarded for their efforts with recognition in the first-ever Health & Vitality Honours a brand new scheme specially created to establish a platform for foodservice businesses to showcase healthy best practice. [...]
AS The Nation gets chubbier, more and more companies are pledging to provide facts about how (un)healthy their food is. But do diners need or want them? Albert Einstein once said that the devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. [...]
SODEXO HAS enhanced its membership of Sedex, the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange, to improve supply chain transparency and ensure its ethical and sustainable standards are being met. Sedex, a supply chain management tool, helps companies to identify, manage and mitigate ethical risks in global supply chains. [...]
First ever ‘Health & Vitality Honours’ launched – a brand new scheme specially created to establish a platform for foodservice businesses to showcase healthy best practice. Open for Submissions: 6th August 2012 Submission Deadline: 31st October 2012 Honours Lunch: 18th January 2013 (Venue [...]
FootprintComment: Salt reduction is the road to a healthier lifestyle
By footprint on December 10, 2012
Published in: Best Practice, Comment, Health and Vitality and tagged Better Tomorrow Plan, Department of Health, Healthwise, Phil Hooper, Responsibility Deal, Salt Pledge, salt reduction, Sodexo.
PHIL HOOPER, Corporate Affairs Director of Sodexo UK & Ireland comments exclusively to FoodserviceFootprint.com on the importance of a commitment to salt reduction. Reducing the amount of salt in diets is a key step towards a healthier lifestyle. As part of our [...]