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18 Feb Health

Please put child health before party politics, Boris

Recent reports that Boris Johnson is considering ditching critical child health policies as part of a “red meat strategy” to shore up support from Conservative backbench MPs really does feel like Groundhog Day.

10 Feb Health

The Henry Dimbleby Interview: Breaking The Junk Food Cycle

As Henry Dimbleby awaits a formal response to his National Food Strategy report, the government’s food tsar explains why state action is crucial if Britain is to break the damaging junk food cycle and reverse the constant rise in obesity figures.

21 Jul 2021 Health

Calorie Counting Regulations take wrong approach to tackling obesity

As Parliament winds down for summer recess, I’m gearing up for my first ever regret motion, setting out why I believe the impending Calorie Labelling Regulations take a wrong-headed approach to the obesity challenge.

15 Jul 2021 Health

Government's Food Advisor Says Plan To Break "Junk Food Cycle" Won't Push Up Food Prices

A new food strategy which proposes prescribing vegetables on the NHS and increasing taxes on sugar and salt would help protect the health service, its author has claimed.

28 Jun 2021 Health

Banning junk food adverts will help people make healthier choices about what they eat

Banning junk food ads must be the start, rather than the end, of a multipronged national effort equal to the growing size of the obesity and health challenge.

12 May 2021 Health

Putting calories on menus will be disastrous for the 1.2 million people with eating disorders

There is a mental health crisis happening, and putting calories on menus will just exacerbate this.

13 Apr 2021 Health

No one should be dying from an eating disorder in 2021

We need ring fenced funding and a proper care pathway for people with eating disorders and their carers, or we will keep losing more and more lives.

04 Mar 2021 Health

Obesity is a national emergency; to level up society, it must be addressed

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the direct link between obesity-related ill-health and vulnerability to the worst effects of the virus

01 Mar 2021 Health

The Government’s obesity strategy is putting those with eating disorders at risk

This Eating Disorder Awareness Week, we must recognise that there is not a catch-all strategy to addressing obesity in the UK.

25 Feb 2021 Coronavirus

Can The Government's Obesity Strategy Tackle The UK's Weight Crisis?

The government’s latest obesity strategy includes a watershed on advertising unhealthy foods and changes to labelling. But is that enough to reverse the crisis, or should the emphasis be on tackling food poverty and improving access to clinical support? Georgina Bailey reports

With Covid rates soaring, the government must help us get the UK off to a “fresh start” in the fight against obesity

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08 Jan 2021 Coronavirus

With Covid rates soaring, the government must help us get the UK off to a “fresh start” in the fight against obesity

As new research reveals the significant impact of losing even a small amount of weight on our long term health, the government must work more closely with weight management services to tackle obesity.

14 Dec 2020 Coronavirus

The government must address the root cause of obesity: inequality

People in poorer socioeconomic groups and those with inadequate access to weight management services are being let down. We must do more to prevent and treat Britain’s obesity problem

14 Sep 2020 Health

The Government must review their anti-obesity strategy to avoid collateral damage to those living with eating disorders

The Government has reiterated its intention to label foods with the number of calories they contain, despite a lack of strong evidence linking this to long-term weight loss.

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03 Aug 2020 Health

BANT Baffled by Contrary Government Schemes: The ‘Better Health’ Campaign Versus ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ Scheme

BANT (British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine) was pleased to announce its support for the recently announced Governmental ‘Better Health’ campaign.

29 Jul 2020 Health

The obesity strategy must focus on wellbeing and not shame people into losing weight

The population has a whole cannot afford for the Prime Minister’s new drive to fail, but we will have to find new ways to engage with individual mental wellbeing.

29 Jul 2020 Health

The Government’s obesity strategy is the beginning of the road, not the end

Seeking to change individual lifestyles alone won’t solve the obesity crisis, we need to address its root causes through a 'whole system' approach.

28 Jul 2020 Health

Boris Johnson unveils £2bn fund to build thousands of miles of new bike lanes as part of anti-obesity drive

Boris Johnson has unveiled a new £2bn fund to build thousands of miles of protected bike lanes in an effort to drive down obesity.

Providing effective, empathetic support will be essential in Boris Johnson's fight to tackle obesity

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27 Jul 2020 Health

Providing effective, empathetic support will be essential in Boris Johnson's fight to tackle obesity

Providing people with effective, empathetic support – as we’ve been doing at Slimming World for more than 50 years – to eat more healthily and become more active, and to do both in ways they can sustain for the long term, is essential.

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27 Jul 2020 Health

BANT supports the ‘Better Health’ campaign but cautions against the ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach

BANT (British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine) whole-heartedly supports any Governmental focus on improving the health of the British nation, a goal that BANT has, itself, been campaigning for over the past 20 years.

27 Jul 2020 Coronavirus

Boris Johnson considers total ban on online junk food ads in bid to defuse obesity ‘time-bomb’

Ministers are considering an outright ban on advertising junk food online as part of a wide-ranging plan to tackle obesity in Britain.