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| In response to your article (Beet that: sugar prices set to fall as EU quotas abolished, 29 September), whether sugar costs pennies or pounds, the food industry knows the government target – 20% – on how much of it they need to reduce from their products by 2020. We are monitoring industry progress against these targets and will report on it in spring. The fact remains that children eat too much sugar and it causes weight gain, which can lead to bullying, low self-esteem and tooth decay. Excess weight in childhood also increases the risk of becoming an overweight or obese adult, which will increase the likelihood of developing a range of cancers, heart diseases and type 2 diabetes. If the food industry is about to save money on sugar, it will hopefully make more resource available for research into innovative ways to make products healthier.Dr Alison TedstoneChief nutritionist, Public Health England | In response to your article (Beet that: sugar prices set to fall as EU quotas abolished, 29 September), whether sugar costs pennies or pounds, the food industry knows the government target – 20% – on how much of it they need to reduce from their products by 2020. We are monitoring industry progress against these targets and will report on it in spring. The fact remains that children eat too much sugar and it causes weight gain, which can lead to bullying, low self-esteem and tooth decay. Excess weight in childhood also increases the risk of becoming an overweight or obese adult, which will increase the likelihood of developing a range of cancers, heart diseases and type 2 diabetes. If the food industry is about to save money on sugar, it will hopefully make more resource available for research into innovative ways to make products healthier.Dr Alison TedstoneChief nutritionist, Public Health England |
| • The article by Richard Partington is remarkable in discussing the implications of EU sugar production and pricing policy for the UK and EU economies, but completely fails to mention the implications for world sugar trade and particularly for the potential impact on lower-income countries. There was space in the print version of the Guardian for a large photograph of a pile of sugar, but no space for any reference to the role of the sugar trade on the welfare of developing countries. This, of course, is consistent with the EU switch of major responsibility for policy relating to developing countries’ trade matters from the directorate of development to the directorate of trade. Perhaps we can look forward to another article in the near future which deals with the wider implications of changes in EU policy on the sugar market for global trade and development issues?Michael TribeGlasgow | • The article by Richard Partington is remarkable in discussing the implications of EU sugar production and pricing policy for the UK and EU economies, but completely fails to mention the implications for world sugar trade and particularly for the potential impact on lower-income countries. There was space in the print version of the Guardian for a large photograph of a pile of sugar, but no space for any reference to the role of the sugar trade on the welfare of developing countries. This, of course, is consistent with the EU switch of major responsibility for policy relating to developing countries’ trade matters from the directorate of development to the directorate of trade. Perhaps we can look forward to another article in the near future which deals with the wider implications of changes in EU policy on the sugar market for global trade and development issues?Michael TribeGlasgow |
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