{"id":21493,"date":"2022-09-20T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/?p=21493"},"modified":"2025-12-17T10:39:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T10:39:26","slug":"media-bant-opinion-in-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/media-bant-opinion-in-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: BANT Opinion in The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Truss&#8217;s plans to ditch the government&#8217;s obesity strategy hits legal hurdles and BANT CEO, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAAAGoG0BsU70t64cvPvuCFdHHB9ROapQZWE\" data-attribute-index=\"0\" data-entity-hovercard-id=\"urn:li:fs_miniProfile:ACoAAAAGoG0BsU70t64cvPvuCFdHHB9ROapQZWE\" data-entity-type=\"MINI_PROFILE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Satu Jackson<\/a>\u00a0quoted on the realities of promoting junk food over healthy food.<br \/>\n\u201cJunk food does nothing to ameliorate hunger in households struggling to put food on the table. In fact, research shows that ultra-processed foods impair appetite control and make people feel hungrier, exacerbating the problem, and ultimately driving people to spend more money they don\u2019t have on food or, worse still, go without.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2022\/sep\/19\/truss-plan-to-axe-sugar-tax-runs-into-legal-and-parliamentary-hitches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truss&#8217;s plans to ditch the government&#8217;s obesity strategy hits legal hurdles and BANT CEO, Satu Jackson\u00a0quoted on the realities of promoting junk food over healthy food. \u201cJunk food does nothing to ameliorate hunger in households struggling to put food on the table. In fact, research shows that ultra-processed foods impair appetite control and make people feel hungrier, exacerbating the problem, and ultimately driving people to spend more money they don\u2019t have on food or, worse still, go without.\u201d Read more: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2022\/sep\/19\/truss-plan-to-axe-sugar-tax-runs-into-legal-and-parliamentary-hitches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":15526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1368,1395],"tags":[159,1415,177,1416],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-21493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bant-in-action","category-media","tag-bant","tag-media","tag-obesity-strategy","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/media\/15526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21493"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=21493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}