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By Dr Stuart W. Flint, Senior Research Fellow in Public Health and Obesity, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK. @DrStuartFlint   Weight stigma refers to “the social devaluation and denigration of people perceived to carry excess weight and leads to prejudice,...

By Emma Sparrow, Children and Young People’s Engagement Manager at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Emma leads the RCPCH &Us network, which represents the voice of children, young people, parents and carers - created to actively seek and share...

1. Junk food adverts significantly influence children’s food choices There is wealth of strong, peer-reviewed evidence proving that the food adverts children see, influence the foods they choose and how much of it they eat. Junk food marketing in particular is linked...

By Chris Askew, Chief Executive at Diabetes UK The UK is the sixth most overweight nation on Earth, and the most overweight nation in Western Europe. This has serious consequences for our health, as obesity is linked to a range of serious health conditions including...

By Jennifer Hird, parent of four I remember standing on the escalator in a department store when my eldest son was 3; he turned to me and asked if we were going to be buying a particular brand of bathroom cleaner. I was baffled – partly because I had no idea he knew...