OHA NEWS & BLOG
OHA Comment: Latest National Child Measurement Programme Data Published
NHS Digital has presented findings from the Government’s National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) for England, 2024/25 school year. It includes children in Reception (aged 4-5 years) and Year 6 (aged 10-11 years) in mainstream state-maintained...
Blog: From Brand to Ban – What Young People Really Think About Energy Drinks
By Prof Amelia Lake, Dr Helen Moore and Grace Stewart Walk into any corner shop, and you’ll see them lined up in the fridge: brightly coloured cans promising energy, improved focus and even hydration. They’re everywhere online too, all over social...
Killer Tactics 2: Business as Usual
This report from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), the Obesity Health Alliance (OHA) and the Alcohol Health Alliance (AHA), a follow-up to 2024’s Killer Tactics report, tells the story of how health harming industries have used their tactics to...
OHA News – Is this the turning point for junk food marketing to kids?
Today marks a major milestone for food policy: the long-awaited volume-price (multi-buy) restrictions in England on unhealthy products are coming into force, as part of the government’s 10 Year Health Plan to launch a ‘moonshot to end the obesity...
OHA Comment – Will the new brand exemption undermine the advertising restrictions?
The Government has pledged to raise the healthiest generation of children ever, including a manifesto commitment to ban junk food advertising to children. New regulations have now been laid to exempt “brand” advertising from the scope of these...