10 Daily Express Wednesday, August 7, 2019
DX1STthe success of the so-called
“sugar tax”, which is said to
have taken 90 million kilos of
sugar out of the nation’s diet
since it was introduced in April
last year. Graham MacGregor,
from Action on Sugar and
Action on Salt, said the
“remarkable” sugar tax had
freed up £340million to spend
on children’s health – and a
calorie tax could do the same.By Hanna Geissler
Health ReporterEXPERTS will today urge the
Government to introduce a
tough new levy on high-calorie
processed foods.
Campaign groups Action on
Sugar and Action on Salt claim
the tax would encourage
manufacturers to reduce the fat
content of unhealthy foods.
Analysis of more than 850
cakes and biscuits, found that fat
contributes significantly more to
the calorie content of cakes and
biscuits than sugar.
The suggestion comes after
After ‘sugar tax’ now
let’s have ‘calorie tax’
Walliams: Why I’ll Carry On loving Babs
COMEDIAN David Walliams yesterday
revealed Carry On star Dame Barbara
Windsor was his first crush.
The Britain’s Got Talent judge, 47,
was among the first to wish the
legendary actress, who is battling
Alzheimer’s, a happy 82nd birthday.
Posting a picture of the pair on
Twitter, Walliams said: “Happy 82nd
birthday beautiful Barbara.
“You were my first crush as a child
as I watched every Carry On film a
hundred times and would blush every
time you appeared on screen. I loved
you then and I love you now.”
Dame Barbara also played Queen
Vic landlady Peggy in EastEnders.Fan-tastic friend... David Walliams with ‘first crush’ Barbara WindsorDementia toll
highlights the
crisis in care
Fatty foods raise risk of disease
TOO much cheese, butter and fatty
meat could triple your risk of
dementia, research suggests.
The chances of people over 60
with high cholesterol developing the
disease were 50/50, a study found.
High cholesterol appeared
to increase risk threefold,
after smoking habits,
weight, exercise, blood
pressure and education
were taken into account.Dr Junaiti Sahar, of University of
Indonesia, said: “Based on this
research, a history of high cholesterol
is the most influential factor for
dementia incidence in the
elderly population.”
The study, published in
the journal Enfermería
Clínica, included 106
participants in Jakarta,
24 of whom had high
cholesterol.DEMENTIA accounted for one in
eight deaths in England and Wales
last year, figures have revealed.
The disease was attributed to
13 per cent of the 541,589 deaths
registered in 2018, data from the
Office for National Statistics shows.
With Alzheimer’s and dementia
remaining the most common cause
of death for the fourth consecutive
year, campaigners are urging the
Government to fulfil its pledges on
adult social care.
Sally Copley of the Alzheimer’s
Society is demanding an urgent
response as the number of people
living with dementia is expected to
rise to one million by 2021.
“We need to take action now to
tackle the biggest health crisis of our
time,” she said. “One person devel-
ops dementia every three minutes in
the UK and far too many still face a
future alone, without adequate sup-
port. There has never been a moreurgent need for the Government, the
NHS, the research community and
society to unite with us against this
devastating condition.”
The ONS said the increase in the
numbers of those developing demen-
tia was a result of people living
longer, surviving other illnesses and
of the syndrome being better under-
stood by doctors.
Dementia and Alzheimer’s were
the leading cause of death for women
last year while for men it was coro-
nary heart disease.
Ben Humberstone, head of health
analysis at ONS, said figures also
showed the gap in life expectancy
between men and women was clos-
ing. “We will understand more as we
analyse this data further,” he said.COMMENT: PAGE 12By Giles SheldrickBy Giles Sheldrick
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