Dr Mike Rayner This is Me

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1. 1. asso.org.au

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   Published on: 7/9/2008   Last Visited: 7/9/2008

   Dr. Mike Rayner is Director of the British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group which is based within the Department of Public Health of the University of Oxford.Mike works closely with voluntary organisations concerned with food and health in the UK and in Europe.He is currently Vice-Chair of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming and a trustee of the National Heart Forum in the UK.He is the Chair of the Nutrition Expert Group of the European Heart Network based in Brussels.

2. 2. www.mendprogramme.org

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   Published on: 6/1/2006   Last Visited: 6/28/2007

   In our own country, Dr Mike Rayner, the director of the British Heart Foundation health promotion research group based in the public health department of Oxford University, has done a study which concluded that food-related ill-health costs the NHS £4bn a year.Increasingly governments are now recognising the urgency of getting their populations eating healthily.

3. 3. observer.guardian.co.uk

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   Published on: 12/30/2007   Last Visited: 12/30/2007

   Professor Mike Rayner, director of the Health Promotion Research Group at Oxford University, said that chronically unhealthy diets were almost as big a public health problem as smoking. 'It's time for the government to impose VAT on unhealthy foods, such as cakes, biscuits, sausage rolls, meat pies and even butter, and use the money to cut the cost of fruit, vegetables, bread and pasta,' said Rayner.
   
   He also urged ministers to ban unhealthy food from vending machines in hospitals and leisure centres, prevent it from being advertised and encourage manufacturers to make their products healthier.