{"id":39213,"date":"2022-12-01T21:54:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T21:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=39213"},"modified":"2022-12-01T21:54:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T21:54:26","slug":"childhood-obesity-campaigners-call-for-a-sugar-tax-on-chocolate-sweets-and-cereals-as-government-misses-key-target-to-cut-sugar-out-of-snacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/12\/01\/childhood-obesity-campaigners-call-for-a-sugar-tax-on-chocolate-sweets-and-cereals-as-government-misses-key-target-to-cut-sugar-out-of-snacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Childhood obesity campaigners call for a sugar tax on chocolate, sweets and cereals as Government misses key target to cut sugar out of snacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27960\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Sugar-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Sugar-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Sugar-770x404.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Sugar-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Sugar-500x263.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Sugar-360x189.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Sugar.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A target to cut sugar in children&#8217;s snacks and meals has been missed by the food industry, in an &#8216;abject failure&#8217; to tackle child obesity.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11491869\/Childhood-obesity-campaigners-call-sugar-tax-chocolate.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; A target to cut sugar in children&#8217;s snacks and meals has been missed by the food industry, in an &#8216;abject failure&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-food-and-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cereal.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39214,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39213\/revisions\/39214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}