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The supermarkets most likely to push customers towards cut price alcohol and junk food

More than a fifth of online supermarket promotions pushed customers towards the purchase of unhealthy snacks MORRISONS nudged online shoppers towards unhealthy snacks more times than any other supermarket in test purchases while Sainsbury’s was most likely to push customers towards alcohol. The first study of its kind in Scotland found online supermarket shoppers are bombarded by around 500 promotions during the average online grocery shop such as multi-buy offers. More than a fifth ( 21%) encouraged shoppers towards snacks that are high in sugar, salt or fat while a tenth were for alcoholic drinks. Sweets,crisps and ice-cream and soft drinks were the ‘discretionary’ items most widely pushed by Waitrose, Tesco, Asda, Iceland, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s.

Campbell Gunn: Scotland in the grip of obesity pandemic

by Campbell Gunn © PA Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up I was watching a television news item on Covid last week, which highlighted a man in his 30s who’d been hospitalised by the virus. It was designed to illustrate that the pandemic can hit young people, too. However, what the item studiously avoided mentioning was the fact that the patient was grossly overweight. A serious omission, surely. When I was queueing to have my Covid vaccine last week, the majority of people waiting with me were overweight or obese. It seems to me that obesity is being increasingly normalised, which in turn makes it socially acceptable.

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