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Government partners with food industry in bid to tackle obesity crisis

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Food retailers and manufacturers will “make the healthy choice the easy choice” in a world-first partnership between government and industry to tackle the obesity epidemic and ease pressure on the NHS as part of the ‘Plan for Change’. As part of the forthcoming 10 Year…

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