This page highlights various resources summarising our research into dietary public health, arranged by theme.
Jump to:
- Food policy and general summaries
- Food environment
- Fiscal interventions
- Agricultural and trade
- Food price and socioeconomic factors
- Food placement and labelling
- Advertising
- Childhood obesity and infant feeding
Food policy and general summaries
- Successive governments’ approach to obesity policies has destined them to fail, say researchers – News, January 2021
- The Healthy Food Act – Bennett Prospect Prize 2019/20 – Blog, April 2020
- It’s time to change the way we think about changing what people eat – Blog, April 2016
- House of Commons Health Select Committee – Diet & Physical Activity – Evidence submission, March 2015
- DASH diet in the UK and Ireland. Addressing barriers to healthy and sustainable diets – Evidence Brief, February 2017 (updated 2019)
Food environment
- Food environment assessment tool (Feat) – www.feat-tool.org.uk – detailed exploration of the geography of food retail access across England, Scotland and Wales. Map, measure and monitor access to food outlets at a neighbourhood level, including changes over time.
- Food environment evidence and resources. Round-up of news, blogs, lay summaries and key research papers in this area.
Fiscal interventions
- Sugar purchased in soft drinks fell 10% following introduction of industry levy – News, March 2021
- Sugar levy had no lasting negative impacts on the UK soft drinks industry, despite substantial reformulation of drinks – News, February 20
- Sugar levels in UK soft drinks lowered following government levy – News, February 2020
- Sales of sugar-sweetened drinks in Jamie’s Italian restaurants fall by 11% after 10p levy – News, October 2017
Agriculture and trade
- DEFRA – The future for food, farming and the environment – Evidence submission, May 2018
- EU Common Agricultural Policy Sugar Reforms, Implications for Public Health – Evidence Brief, October 2015
Food price and socioeconomic factors
- Committee on Food, Poverty, Health and the Environment. Hungry for change: fixing the failures in food – Evidence submission July 2020
- Food insecurity in the UK – why we need a new normal – Blog, April 2020
- The price of prevention – healthy diets and the cost of food – Blog, December 2017
- A varied diet can prevent diabetes – but can you afford it? – Blog, July 2016
- Explore 13 year of food price changes – Interactive data visualisation, April 2016
- Stop accusing the poor of making bad diet choices – Blog, March 2016
- Food, income and education: who eats more of what? – Inforaphic, 2015
- Price gap between more and less healthy foods grows – News, October 2014
- Financial hardships, diet & obesity – Evidence Brief, November 2014
- Multiple social ties and healthy eating in older people – Evidence Brief, October 2013
Food placement and labelling
- Restaurant approaches to displaying nutritional information online – Evidence Brief, March 2021
- Menu labelling linked to less fat and salt in food at major UK restaurant chains – News, October 2019
- Effects of UK supermarket policies on healthier food at the tills – Evidence Brief, February 2020
- Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases – News, December 2018
- Limits and labelling have reduced availability of artificial trans fats – systematic review finds – News, February 2015
Advertising
- Introducing a total online advertising restriction for products high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) – Evidence submission, December 2020
- Restricting unhealthy food advertising on TV could reduce number of overweight and obese children by 120,000 – News, October 2020
- Blog: Junk food – have we #AdEnough? – Blog, May 2018
- Committee of Advertising Practice – new food advertisement rules – Evidence submission, July 2016
Childhood obesity and infant feeding
- Health and Social Care Committee – Childhood Obesity Follow-Up – Evidence submission, October 2019
- Health and Social Care Committee – Childhood Obesity – Evidence submission, April 2018
- Effects of infant feeding on growth and childhood obesity – Evidence Brief, February 2019