A radical UN recommendation to halve sugar intake will not be implemented in Britain says a Whitehall adviser on nutrition who has worked for Mars and Coca-Cola. Professor Ian MacDonald, head of a panel of health experts in charge of drawing up guidelines on sugar, said it will ‘not act’ on the World Health Organisation’s proposal. The move led to fury yesterday as senior doctors and MPs accused officials of ‘immense arrogance’ for ignoring the suggested limit of six teaspoons a day, in the face of an obesity crisis that threatens to overwhelm the NHS. Recommendations: The Government does not plan to follow advice to curb our sugar intake by half, it has emerged
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World Health Organisation urging adults and children to half sugar intake
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Head of Government science panel Professor Ian MacDonald, who used to work for Coca Cola, will 'take note' of advice
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He said: ‘To say that he is going to ignore the @placeholder has an immense amount of arrogance about it.