Another year of childhood obesity data was published, another year with a worsening situation.

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Another year of data shows that the gulf between children in deprived areas and children in richer areas has widened further.

It’s nearly 500 days since the government published the NHS 10-year plan promising an obesity moonshot and a commitment to introduce mandatory reporting by large food businesses on the healthiness of their food sales. The idea is simple: if companies publish what proportion of their sales are healthy, the government can see which are moving in the right direction and can see where best to set targets for improvement.

In those 500 days, feeding children well has only got harder. 17% of........

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