OHA NEWS & BLOG
Making a bad situation worse: Covid-19 and the impact on childhood obesity
In November 2021, NHS Digital released new data from England’s National Childhood Measurement Programme (NCMP). This surveillance programme collects data on the weight and height of children in their first and last years of primary school and is...
Outdoor Advertising: A major loophole in food marketing restrictions
Guest blog by Amy Finlay, PhD student at the University of Liverpool At this time of year, it’s hard to escape food marketing. Everywhere we turn there are TV adverts, social media posts and bus shelter posters promoting a wide variety of...
Whatever happened to the updated Nutrient Profiling Model?
Faced with a conversation about the ‘nutrient profiling model’ it is likely that most people’s eyes would glaze over. Even more so if we started to explain that it is a complex algorithm based on a scoring system that weighs up the contribution of...
National childhood measurement programme data 2020/21 – OHA response
This new data highlights the need for a relentless drive on improving children’s health. In particular we need an intense focus on closing the gap between the most and least deprived to ensure every single child has an equal chance to grow up...
Guest blog: To reformulate, or not to reformulate; that is the question
Katharine Jenner RNutr, Director of Action on Sugar, discusses the role of reformulation in ‘turning the tide on obesity’ in Sugar Awareness Week 2021 Whether ‘tis nobler to make small improvements to the foods people already buy and eat. Or to...