The NDNS 2014 showed that the majority of children’s & teenager's sugar intake is coming from sugary drinks: http://t.co/wO84NlQoEK #noaw
— Kevin Fenton (@ProfKevinFenton) January 16, 2015
The trouble is, if you check the source he cites, it doesn't say that at all. It says this:
For children aged ten years and under, the main sources of NMES [non-milk extrinsic sugars] were ‘non-alcoholic beverages’ (27-30%) and ‘cereals and cereal products’ (25-29%). For children aged 11 to 18 years, ‘non-alcoholic beverages’ was the largest contributor to NMES intake, providing 40%, mainly from soft drinks (30%). ‘Fruit juice’ contributed 10-14% to NMES intake in children across the age groups. ‘Sugar, preserves and confectionery’ contributed an additional 19-22% to intake for children.
The appendix shows the % of sugar that comes from fruit juice and soft drinks in detail (click to enlarge).
Call me a pedant if you must, but I've always been under the impression that a majority is any percentage above 50 per cent, and that figures like 27 per cent, 30 per cent and—if you count fruit juice as a 'sugary drink'—40 per cent are known as a 'minority'.
Never mind though, eh? Fenton only relieves the taxpayer of £175,000 a year to do this job.
For the record, here's what the other tireless public servants at this quango get paid..
| Name | Job title | Professional qualifications | How appointed | Salary level |
| Duncan Selbie | Chief Executive | MSc | Open competition | £185,000 to £190,000 |
| Lis Birrane | Director of Communications | NCTJ Proficiency Certificate PGDip | Job matching | £100,000 to £105,000 |
| Michael Brodie | Director of Finance and Commercial | CPFA | Open competition | £105,000 to £110,000 |
| Dr Paul Cosford | Director for Health Protection and Medical Director | MBBS MSc MRCPsych FFPHM | Job matching | £160,000 to £165,000 |
| Dr Yvonne Doyle | Regional Director | MD MPH FRCPI FFPHM FFPHMI DCH | Job matching | £165,000 to £170,000 |
| Professor Kevin Fenton | Director of Health and Wellbeing | MBBS MSc Dip GUM FFPH PHD | Open competition | £175,000 to £180,000 |
| Richard Gleave | Chief Operating Officer | MSc | Open competition | £130,000 to £135,000 |
| Dr Jenny Harries | Regional Director | MBChB MPH MBA PGDip PGCert FFPH FCMI | Open competition | £125,000 to £130,000 |
| Professor Paul Johnstone | Regional Director | BM MSc MRCGP FFPH | Job matching | £180,000 to £185,000 |
| Jonathan Marron | Director of Strategy | MBA | Open competition | £110,000 to £115,000 |
| Dr Christine McCartney | Director of Microbiology Services | PhD MRCPath FRCPath | Fixed term appointment | £55,000 to £60,000 |
| Stephen Morris | Development Advisor | None | Secondment | £120,000 to £125,000 |
| Professor John Newton | Chief Knowledge Officer | MBBS MRCP MS | Open competition | £165,000 to £170,000 |
| Dr Rashmi Shukla | Regional Director | BM FRCP FFPH | Job matching | £165,000 to £170,000 |
| Alex Sienkiewicz | Chief of Staff | None | Secondment | £110,000 to £115,000 |
| Tony Vickers-Byrne | Director of Human Resources | FCIPD DMS PGCE Masters in Workforce Planning | Job matching | £100,000 to £105,000 |
| Sally Warren | Director of Programmes | None | Open competition | £80,000 to £85,000 |
#AusterityBritain
Blimey! Nice work if you can get it! £175K? A year? Just for telling porkies? Where do I sign up?
ReplyDeleteIt is notable that the most useful person on this list and the only genuine scientist, is paid the least. Christine McCartney heads up the microbiology service, which comprises an ever shrinking group of laboratories that test patient samples for pathogens. It is always under funded and hard pressed in common with many of our front line health services. That is possibly because of the huge amount wasted on the useless mouths who populate much of this list.
ReplyDeleteIt really is quite disgusting that we are forced to pay £175K a year plus to a man incapable of performing basic mathematical operations.
The chart shows that there is a spike in the 11-18 age ranges for both genders, then decrease in the 19-64 range, and even lower in the 65+. All this shows is that pubertal kids require more energy to make bodily changes, something which is shunned, contributing to the sky rocketing rates of anorexia, bulimia and hospitalizations for these.
ReplyDeleteAlso, as you get older, sometimes a nice, mellow cup of tea is all that's required.