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Articles tagged with: Obesity
Can drugs really cure the obesity epidemic? Partner content
Health
By Slimming World
Can drugs really cure the obesity epidemic?
In a significant change of direction, the Government has switched its obesity strategy to a £40 million drug pilot. Carolyn Pallister, Registered Dietitian and Head of Nutrition, Research and Health from the UK's leading weight loss organisation Slimming World, looks at what this means for people who need support to lose weight.
In Brief: Obesity
Health
By Grant Hill-Cawthorne
In Brief: Obesity
In an occasional series, staff from Parliament’s libraries give The House choice nuggets from the archives. This week, Professor Grant Hill-Cawthorne, House of Commons librarian and managing director of research and information, looks at the UK’s obesity problem
Slimming World parliamentary drop-in showcases evidence-based approach to healthy weight loss Partner content
Health
By Slimming World
Slimming World parliamentary drop-in showcases evidence-based approach to healthy weight loss
Slimming World, the UK and Ireland’s most advanced and effective weight management programme, recently held a parliamentary drop-in, supported by the APPG on Obesity, highlighting how Slimming World members are able to adopt healthy lifestyles in line with key government priorities around diet, the NHS, economic growth and harder to reach communities.
Obesity is damaging the nation’s health and wealth
Health
By Maggie Throup MP
Obesity is damaging the nation’s health and wealth
Successive governments have sought to reduce obesity through 14 strategies over 30 years – all of which have failed to fix the broken food system.
5 years on from the introduction of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy: what do we have to show for it? Partner content
Health
By British Heart Foundation
5 years on from the introduction of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy: what do we have to show for it?
In the midst of a crisis facing our health service, with record waits for operations, long delays in A&E and strikes not seen in generations, it could be easy for public health interventions to take a back seat. But the difference interventions such as the Soft Drinks Industry Levy can make are significant.
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Health
By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
Latest figures show an alarming rise in T2DM in the under 40’s and highlight a failing food industry.
Body weight, inactivity, and social deprivation amongst the contributing factors.
Partner content
Health
By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
Prevention is crucial, but the nation’s health crisis needs innovation not just investment.
Funding for prevention should reflect the scale of the problem.
Partner content
Health
By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
BANT supports Dimbleby’s protest at government’s “insane” inaction against obesity
Junk food culture mean Brits eat more ultra-processed than real food.
Public health policy should return to the top of Steve Barclay’s priority list
Health
By Adam Briggs, Senior Policy Fellow, The Health Foundation
Public health policy should return to the top of Steve Barclay’s priority list
After a gap of less than eight weeks, Steve Barclay returned to the Department of Health and Social Care to find NHS waiting lists of more than 7m, a social care system on its knees, record workforce shortages, and the first signs of a flu season arriving in hospitals.
Partner content
Health
By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
BANT calls for Government to improve, not remove ‘Obesity Strategy’
Latest sign that Truss has no appetite for health policies
Calories on menus are causing more harm than good
Health
By Jacob Young MP
Calories on menus are causing more harm than good
Dining out in a restaurant should be one of life’s little treats, and for most of us it is.
Reducing excess salt in our food would be a much-needed triumph for UK public health
Health
By Graham MacGregor CBE
Reducing excess salt in our food would be a much-needed triumph for UK public health
Earlier this year, evidence emerged from South Africa that mandatory salt targets resulted in a huge fall in salt intake, even amongst the most deprived groups.
We must change the failing approach to ill health
Health
By Grace Everest
We must change the failing approach to ill health
The UK’s health looks increasingly frayed and unequal. Even prior to the pandemic, people were living more years in poor health, life expectancy gains had stalled, and inequalities were widening.
Jamie Oliver Accuses Boris Johnson Of Playing Politics With Children's Health Over Obesity Plans
Health
Jamie Oliver Accuses Boris Johnson Of Playing Politics With Children's Health Over Obesity Plans
Celebrity Chef and healthy food campaigner Jamie Oliver has accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson of "playing politics" with children's health.
The Henry Dimbleby Interview: Breaking The Junk Food Cycle
Health
By John Johnston
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.
HFSS ad ban: ‘Pro-Tech’ Government Dismissing Tech Solutions Partner content
Economy
By IAB UK
HFSS ad ban: ‘Pro-Tech’ Government Dismissing Tech Solutions
The self-proclaimed “unashamedly pro-tech” Government continues to pursue a draconian online advertising ban that harks back to an analogue era
Calorie Counting Regulations take wrong approach to tackling obesity
Health
By Baroness Bull
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.
Government's Food Advisor Says Plan To Break 'Junk Food Cycle' Won't Push Up Food Prices
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.
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Health
By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
New food-first tactics are needed to tackle the modifiable factors involved in obesity and metabolic dysregulation
Figures show that a staggering 63% of the British population is now classified as overweight or obese (1).
Supporting families with healthy food through lockdown Partner content
Communities
By The National Lottery
Supporting families with healthy food through lockdown
Thanks to funding from The National Lottery, the Friendly Food Club has helped thousands of struggling families in Dorset learn to cook affordable, nutritious meals and make new friends. 
Obesity is a national emergency; to level up society, it must be addressed
Health
By Baroness Jenkin of Kennington and Jo Gideon MP
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
The Government’s obesity strategy is putting those with eating disorders at risk
Health
By Sarah Champion MP
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.
Can The Government's Obesity Strategy Tackle The UK's Weight Crisis?
Coronavirus
By Georgina Bailey
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
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Health
By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
BANT launches its NEW “Food for your Health” Campaign to target the rise in diet-induced metabolic illness
“Never before have our food choices been so important for our health and wellbeing” is the strapline of the new BANT campaign “Food for your Health” launching this February 2021.