OHA NEWS & BLOG
Healthy Weight Strategy Lived Experience Panel
The Obesity Health Alliance is working with a group of academic and policy experts to develop a long-term strategy to help more people be a healthy weight. This strategy will focus on policy change and will cover both prevention and treatment. Read...
74% of the Public Support Government Action on Obesity in the Wake of Emerging Links with COVID-19
Emerging research suggests there is a link between obesity and adverse outcomes from COVID-19; and now people want the government to address obesity with policy interventions including those that address the food environment. These include changes...
“If you don’t like what’s being said, change the conversation.”
How food companies are keeping unhealthy food in the spotlight during the pandemic This simple advice on advertising was oozed by (entirely fictional and utterly callous) advertising legend, Don Draper in Mad Men. While he wasn’t specifically...
Coronavirus and the discussion of obesity
Sarah Le Broq, Director of Obesity UK, a charity supporting people living with obesity, blogs for us on the importance of language when discussing obesity and coronavirus. Obesity is a complex health condition. The UK Government’s Foresight Report...
The Role of Supermarkets in Helping us be Healthy
We are living through the worst public health crisis in a generation, the likes of which most of us in the UK will not have experienced before. The coronavirus pandemic is having an impact on all aspects of our lives, not least the food and drinks...