Jan 30, 2025
The UK Government has published its response to the UK House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee’s food and health report Recipe for Health: A Plan to Fix our Broken Food System. The report was published last year based on evidence from experts, including...
Dec 12, 2024
The Obesity Health Alliance (OHA) is supporting today’s announced reforms to the planning system to protect children’s health by preventing new hot food takeaways from opening where children learn and play, or where they may affect the health of local communities. As...
Oct 16, 2024
For the launch of the Obesity Health Alliance’s “Treatment of Overweight and Obesity Position Statement & Evidence Review”, over 200 NHS healthcare professionals have written to the Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting MP. The OHA are...
Sep 3, 2024
This report, developed by Action on Smoking and Health, Obesity Health Alliance and Alcohol Health Alliance, highlights the common strategies used by the tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food and drink industries to delay and undermine public health policies in order to...
May 23, 2023
8 out of 10 UK adults support the Government banning advertising of unhealthy food on TV (79%) and online (81%) to kids 68% of UK adults would support an industry levy being extended beyond soft drinks if the money supported children’s food and health initiatives The...
Feb 20, 2023
The Obesity Health Alliance is proud to announce that today we are releasing our Health Inequalities Position Statement. This document outlines the key evidence on the relationship between excess weight and inequalities in health outcomes for a range of different...
