Britain mulling idea to ban high-sugar food for children

Alarmed at the growing rate of obesity among children, Britain is toying with the idea to ban high-sugar content foods for children.
As per the latest Health Survey for England it is revealed that 28% of children aged between two and 15 were classed as overweight or obese and that a number of popular children's breakfast cereals contain as much as 30% sugar.
If it had its way, Labour would outlaw high levels of sugar, fat and salt in children's food and have GPs prescribe exercise. This has been indicated by Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary. In his opinion, many more actions would be necessary to tackle lifestyle problems as part of NHS reforms. He has added that it was a matter of grave concern about the level of sugar being fed to children and pledged it was time to tackle the food industry.
He has remarked that he was considering how to impose a mandatory maximum limit on fat, salt and sugar in foods that are consumed by children. One method would be to tackle lifestyle and Andy Burnham has suggested that family doctors should refer patients for exercise to help them tackle weight and healthy eating problems.
Incidentally, the Action on Sugar group of specialists are concerned with sugar and its effects on health and wants a ‘sugar tax’ imposed. As per this group, one in five 10 to 11-year-olds in the UK are now obese, while one in three are overweight. In order to check this trend, some measures should be introduced to cut added sugar in food by 40% by 2020, to cut fat in foods and to ban sports sponsorship by "junk food" companies.