“Norwegians are eating less sugar than at any time in the last 44 years, the health directorate in Oslo has said, announcing that annual consumption per person had fallen by more than 1kg a year since 2000.”
“’We are not yet down to the recommended intake, but we have actually already reached our target for sugar reduction set for 2021,’ Linda Granlund, the divisional director of public health, told the national broadcaster NRK.”
“In the UK, Public Health England said in September that consumption of sugar in England had risen by 2.6% between 2015 and 2018, blaming a general increase in people eating very sugary products, of which there were increasing numbers in the shops.”
Read the whole story here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/20/norwegians-cut-sugar-intake-to-lowest-level-in-44-years