food

Only 3 per cent of UN emergency food aid getting to desperate Gazans

At the end of December, a joint UN convoy of nine trucks successfully reached people in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza,…

2 years ago

Only adverts showing junk food covered by TV ban

Katharine Jenner, director of the Obesity Health Alliance, an umbrella group for health campaigners, had argued for brands to be…

2 years ago

Junk food: Porridge and crumpets fall under new ad ban

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, cook and Wahaca restaurant chain co-founder Ms Miers welcomed the advertising ban. "The…

2 years ago

Lebanon: food insecurity ‘set to worsen’ amid deadly strikes

The update from UN agencies also reported that Israeli strikes have left more than 3,100 people dead and over 13,800 injured…

2 years ago

‘Catastrophic’ hunger persists in multiple countries, warn food agencies

“Without immediate humanitarian action and concerted efforts to overcome severe access constraints and resolve ongoing conflicts, further starvation and death…

2 years ago

How will weight-loss drugs change our relationship with food?

Now one in four adults in the UK is obese.Wegovy can help people lose around 15% of their starting body…

2 years ago

Ten killed at north Gaza food distribution centre, Unrwa says

Overnight, four people were killed when an Israeli aircraft struck a tented camp for displaced people next to al-Aqsa Martyrs…

2 years ago

Sudan crisis must not be forgotten by world leaders, says UN food agency

In an appeal for greater global solidarity with the people of Sudan, the World Food Programme (WFP) said that around…

2 years ago

TV junk food ads to be banned before 9pm from next year

Under the proposals, there is a two-stage approach for defining a product that is considered "less healthy" for the purposes…

2 years ago

Zimbabwe faces worsening food crisis due to El Niño droughts

This comes just two months after UN humanitarians declared Zimbabwe as one of the hunger hotspots where acute food insecurity…

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