Saving your bacon: healthy-eating policy evolves

The Intelligence from The Economist · Oct 9, 2026 · 24m

Decades of messaging have not worked, so governments are trying new ways to get citizens to eat well, from scary labelling to taxing the junkiest foods. Will it work? The death of a plague researcher in Russia is made more mysterious by the government’s resolute lack of transparency. And a tribute to Cyril Hilsum, the inventor behind ubiquitous flat-screen displays.

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Guests and host:

Slavea Chankova, health-care correspondent

Alex Turner, defence editor

Ann Wroe, obituaries editor

Jason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence”

Topics covered:

diet, public…