Food served in NHS hospitals has come in for criticism, with campaigners arguing that salt and fat levels are too high.
This would help parents protect their children from foods which contain excessive levels of sugar, salt and fat in a way that a tax wouldn't.
McDonald's has moved to provide more salads and other healthier foods with less sugar, salt and fat in them, in response to public concerns about diet.
The Foods Standards Agency said people should be eating more starchy foods, fruit and vegetables, some protein-rich food and less salt, sugar and fat.
It will not be allowed in news, current affairs or children's programmes - or for alcoholic drinks and foods high in salt, sugar and fat.
Fringe retailers, by her definition, are those shops that specialise in food high in salt, fat and sugar, plus non-food items such as fizzy drinks.
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Firms have signed up to a series of pledges to reduce the salt, sugar and fat content of food and to pursue more responsible marketing initiatives.
The company will spend the next year reassessing salt, fat and sugar content in every one of its products, says Gert W. Meijer, head of Unilever's health institute.
They prefer a rival scheme in which the percentage of a healthy daily intake of salt, fat and sugar provided by an average serving of a product is set out on its packaging.
In the United Kingdom, the Food Standards Agency, described as a food watchdog, wants to defuse the so-called obesity time bomb and is considering such methods as a ban on TV advertising aimed at children, health warnings on foods high in salt, sugar and fat, and requiring school vending machines to offer healthy alternatives, according to press reports.
Or likewise, low salt is often loaded with sugar and fat to make up for the low salt.
Between 2009 and 2011, Danone reformulated 20% of their products to reduce fat, salt and sugar.
The Nakd Apple Pie was the only bar in the study that did not contain any added sugar, while the Alpen Light Apple and Sultana was the only one to have three green traffic lights for fat, saturated fat and salt.
The AHA still recommends eating five servings of fruits and vegetables and six servings of grain every day, as well as limiting fat, salt, cholesterol and alcohol.
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Humans are programmed to like fat and salt, Meijer says, so Unilever faces something of a prisoner's dilemma in its response.
The issue of childhood obesity often makes the headlines in newspapers, with lots of stories warning about the high levels of fat, salt and sugar in some foods and drinks.
Eating a bag of potato chips a day gives you 100 times this level, but no one cares since the fat and salt will kill you a lot faster than any radiation.
Which? compared the nutritional content of the bars using the manufacturers' information and applied traffic light labelling to see if the levels of fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt were high, medium or low.
Years of research had educated me about how sugar, fat, and salt change the brain.
The woman might have been interested in how my industry source, who had called sugar, fat, and salt the three points of the compass, described her entree.
Following the DASH diet means eating foods that are low in fat, cholesterol and salt.
We need to campaign against food being loaded with fat, sugar and salt.
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But health advocates have been unimpressed with the food industry's efforts to reduce fat, sugar and salt in foods.
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We've taken fat, sugar and salt, we've put it on every corner.
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The Nutrition Information Initiative, launched last year, put detailed labels on McDonald's packaging with data on calories, protein, fat, carbohydrates and salt content.
There have been long-running battles over how to label the amount of fat, sugar, salt and calories in food - with several different systems in place.
The mayor has faced opposition for public health initiatives before, such as when he banned trans fat and called for reducing salt consumption.
Last year researchers estimated that more than 30, 000 lives a year would be saved if everyone in the UK followed dietary guidelines on fat, salt, fibre, and fruit and vegetables.
It also comes, according to the report, with 2, 330 calories, 45 grams of saturated fat and 6, 490 milligrams of salt.
Foods are awarded points for their good qualities (containing fruit or vegetables, say) and penalised for bad ones (lots of salt, sugar or fat).
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