Overview
- University of Liverpool modelling published in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe estimates nutrient warnings would cut obesity prevalence by 4.44 percentage points between 2024 and 2043.
- The study projects about 110,000 obesity-related deaths could be avoided with mandatory nutrient warning labels on foods high in fat, salt or sugar.
- A mandated traffic-light system is estimated to reduce obesity by 2.34 percentage points and prevent or postpone roughly 57,000 deaths over the same period.
- Researchers urge the UK Government to consider nutrient warnings, arguing simple, prominent labels help consumers and encourage product reformulation.
- The British Retail Consortium says supermarkets already provide nutrition information and widely use traffic-light labels, and no formal government response was reported.