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On the eve of the World Breast Feeding Conference taking place in Delhi this weekend, a special international report released by the World Breastfeeding Trends initiative reveals some profoundly shocking and worrying statistics. The study of 51 countries, which makes up two thirds of the world’s children, demonstrates that only 40% of children born in these countries were exclusively breast fed for the first six months as recommended by the World Health Organisation and UNICEF.
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A special report on BBC’s Newsnight yesterday revealed that dozens of lawyers in the United States, including many that took on the tobacco companies, have filed cases against food industry giants including PepsiCo and Heinz for misleading consumers and violating federal regulations by wrongly labelling products and ingredients. Whether this is just the tip of the iceberg as far as litigation goes against the food industry remains to be seen but it certainly begs the question of how much do we truly know about what we’re eating and whether current nutritional labelling in the UK is fit for purpose. In addition, what lengths will the industry go to in marketing products that are healthy when in fact they could be the complete opposite?

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Dr Aseem Malhotra, a cardiologist seeing the consequences of poor diet and obesity on a daily basis, has become a passionate campaigner in the field of obesity and health.
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