Today the Department for Health and Social Care and the Government have confirmed plans to further restrict the marketing of less healthy food and drink...
Today, marking this year's World Obesity Day, the Government have announced new specialised support to help those living with obesity to lose weight through £100...
Influencing health and wellbeing at a community level is a crucial factor in transforming food environments. Read the latest guest blog post from Beth Wolfenden....
To mark this year's World Breastfeeding Week (1st-7th August), our student placement Chloé Higham-Smith discusses whether there is an association between low breastfeeding in the...
On Monday 27th July, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a raft of measures to “get the nation fit and healthy, protect themselves against COVID-19...
The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated how important health and wellbeing is to us all, thereby driving conversations at a national level on how we can...
Stop using kids’ characters on unhealthy food and drink, say parents in our latest joint-report with the Children's Food Campaign ‘Pester Power or Parent Power?’, a...
According a report in The Times (published 14.5.20, paid for article), it is claimed that the Prime Minister of the UK Boris Johnson has changed...
To mark this year's World Obesity Day (4th March), we hear from Programme Director of Childhood Obesity at Guy's & St Thomas' Charity, Sarah Hickey,...
The first Cities Summit on Childhood Obesity is due to held this September in London. The London’s Child Obesity Taskforce in partnership with Guy’s and St...
Food Active are delighted to have been able to contribute towards the new The All-Party Parliamentary Group on A Fit and Healthy Childhood report ‘Healthy...
Food Active's evidence to the Health and Social Care Committee Childhood Obesity Inquiry has been published. Earlier this month, The Health and Social Care Committee followed...
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