University of Liverpool Professor of Public Health, Simon Capewell, calls for #health warning labels on sugary drinks

“He says that many other harmful products already carry warnings such as insecticides, other toxic products and cigarettes – the effectiveness of which he says is “now agreed by almost everyone.”

Professor Capewell believes that public support for warnings is high, suggesting that labelling is feasible.

“A recent BBC survey found that 60% of adults would support health warnings similar to those on cigarette packets on food packaging,” he says. “Even more, 70%, would support banning sugary drinks in UK schools, or limiting the amount of sugar allowed in certain foods.”

He says that #sugar is “increasingly being implicated as a specific causal factor” for obesity, heart disease being overweight, and “current UK and US obesity policies are failing to reverse #obesity trends.”

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