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Three-quarters of food bought in UK hospitals is unhealthy, audit shows

https://www.theguardian.com/society...ps-sweets-cakes

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But Aseem Malhotra, an NHS consultant cardiologist and professor of evidence-based medicine, said the measures were not enough. “We need to be much more radical given where we are with the obesity epidemic. Hospitals should be setting an example,” he said. “We need to ban the sale of junk food completely in hospitals. If people want to buy this stuff, that’s fine, they can go out and get it, but hospitals should not be selling it. They should be selling decent, healthy food.”

Malhotra, who campaigns for a better food environment in hospitals, has called for a ban on junk food before. The latest audit, he said, shows how the snacks on offer, and how they are promoted, drive the choices people make whether they are visitors and patients or doctors and nurses.