Health and Vitality

  • Companies rewarded in first ever Health & Vitality Honours

    LEADING PERSONALITIES from the foodservice and hospitality industries, including the likes of Raymond Blanc OBE, LACA’s Anne Bull and Westminster Kingsway’s Gary Hunter, teamed-up with health and nutrition expert Dr Susan Jebb and Sodexo Health Ambassador Matt Dawson MBE to…

  • Nutrition trends going wrong way

    THE GOVERNMENT has published its annual “Family Food” survey, which campaigners say shows worrying trends in terms of nutrition.   The survey provides statistics on food purchases by type of food and also estimates of nutrient content.   Most concerning…

  • Companies Rewarded for Healthy Best Practices In First-Ever Foodservice ‘Health & Vitality Honours’

    A NUMBER of organisations sufficiently advanced in the health, nutrition and vitality arena will be rewarded for their efforts with recognition in the first-ever “Health & Vitality Honours” – a brand new scheme specially created to establish a platform for…

  • Health & Vitality Roll of Honour

    ORGANISATIONS FROM across the foodservice supply chain form The Roll of Honour for the inaugural Health & Vitality Honours scheme announced today.                 Caterers from the private and public sectors, manufacturers and suppliers…

  • FootprintComment: Salt reduction is the road to a healthier lifestyle

    PHIL HOOPER, Corporate Affairs Director of Sodexo UK & Ireland comments exclusively to FoodserviceFootprint.com on the importance of a commitment to salt reduction.                           Reducing the amount of…

  • HCA hits back at campaigner claims

    THE HOSPITAL Caterers Association (HCA) has hit back at claims that much of the food served in hospitals is coming from animals reared in low-welfare conditions.                   The RSPCA and the Campaign…

  • Sustainable Diets

    ENCOURAGING CONSUMERS to adopt sustainable diets is important for health, environmental and social reasons. But there is difficulty in defining what such a diet is and how to communicate this to the consumer in a way they can engage with…

  • FootprintComment: Beware of portion distortion

    Peter Grove, organiser of National Eating Out/In Week, explains the beauty of diversity but warns of our tendency to over-feed.   NATIONAL EATING Out/In Week took place to celebrate the diversity of international cuisines in Britain and raise money for…

  • Hippocrates: Organisations are what they eat

    AS WE enter the last week for submissions of the inaugural Health & Vitality Honours 2013, Amanda Ursell enlightens us about the importance of creating a platform for excellence.    Napoleon, said to be one of the greatest military commanders…

  • Information, Information, Information

    AS The Nation gets chubbier, more and more companies are pledging to provide facts about how (un)healthy their food is. But do diners need or want them?   Albert Einstein once said that “the devil has put a penalty on…