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Food Active NHS Declaration on Healthy Weight

WebThe NHS Healthy Weight Declaration has been developed by Food Active, working in partnership with NHS England South West, Public Health England South West (now Office for Health Improvement & Disparities) and Diabetes UK South West, supporting NHS organisations to work as part of a wider system to promote healthier weight. The NHS …

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Food Active Tackling the growing obesity crisis.

WebHealth Equalities Group, Food Active, 2nd Floor, 151 Dale Street, Liverpool L2 2JH T: 0151 237 2686 E: [email protected]

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Poverty and childhood obesity: a 21st century role reversal

WebBoth the new UCL study and recent news story covered in the press highlight a very harrowing truth. Children living in poverty now face the dual burden of both underweight and obesity – and both can be as equally damaging to children’s short and long term health, development and opportunities in adulthood. Latest figures suggest that …

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Food Active Who we are

WebFood Active is one of two programmes delivered by the Health Equalities Group. Our sister organisation, Healthy Stadia, is a European charity which promotes the health of visitors, fans, players, employees and the surrounding community. We work closely with Healthy Stadia on a number of projects including the Give Up Loving Pop campaign and

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Food Active Are supermarkets bad for our health

WebResearch has found that there is a promotional bias towards less healthy foods in supermarkets in the UK, particularly sugary drinks, salty snacks and fatty foods. 5 Data from Which? found that 53% of all promotions involved less healthy foods, typically those high in fat, sugar and/or salt (HFSS), compared with 47% of healthier products. 6

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Food Active Weight Stigma Resource Hub

WebAt the #FoodActive2021 conference in November 2021 we discussed what we can all do to eliminate weight stigma, hearing from a wide range of academics, charities and lived experience. This Conference Hub contains a full recording of the event, and speakers presentations. Weight Stigma: Evidence Briefing. This briefing was developed to provide

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Stamping Out Weight Stigma: A Checklist for the Workforce

WebTo mark this year’s annual World Obesity Day (4th March), Food Active are launching a new resource to help local councils and beyond to address weight stigmatisation and bias across a wide range of communications. ‘Stamping out weight stigma: a checklist for the workforce’ has been designed to give the writer, trainer or health and social

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Food Active Campaigns and Interventions

WebOur early years campaign which promotes healthy drink choices in the 0-5s, to help reduce the risk of dental decay and weight gain. Food in Care. Our campaign which aims to raise the importance and role of food and nutrition in children in care. Cooking and Company. A healthy eating and social inclusion course for older male carers.

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Food Active Services for the Holiday Activities and Food Programme

WebThis 2.5-hour training session is delivered virtually via Zoom and is ideal for providers of HAF who have limited experience in providing healthy food and drink. The training consists of a PowerPoint presentation and a range of polls, activities and discussion points. Price per session starts at £450 plus VAT for up to 30 participants, which

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Food Active What we do

WebWe work to influence policy pertaining to healthy weight at both a local and national level. We deliver interventions and campaigns to promote healthier weight, including balanced diet and physically active lifestyles, with a focus on populations who suffer the greatest level of health inequalities. We undertake research and develop strategic

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Food Active Liverpool City Launches ‘Good Food Plan’

WebThe Plan, to be launched today, addresses key issues including acute hunger; chronic food insecurity; access to and take-up of healthy, nutritious food; and the sustainability of food supply in Liverpool, and is focused around five goals: Goal 1: ‘Good Food’ at points of Crisis. We want to ensure people in crisis get access to ‘Good Food

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Food Active Professor Matt Ashton

WebHealth Equalities Group, Food Active, 2nd Floor, 151 Dale Street, Liverpool L2 2JH T: 0151 237 2686 E: [email protected]

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Food Active Sunderland City Council becomes the first local …

WebThe Local Authority Declaration on Healthy Weight has been developed by Food Active and is a strategic, system-wide commitment made across all council departments to reduce unhealthy weight in local communities, protect the health and wellbeing of staff and citizens and to make an economic impact on health and social …

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Food Active Healthier Place, Healthier Future

WebThe Pennine Lancashire Healthier Place, Healthier Future Programme, was one of five Childhood Obesity Trailblazers commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care. The national programme was established to support the Government’s ambition to halve childhood obesity and significantly reduce the gap in obesity between children from

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Food Active NHS Prevention Pledge (Cheshire & Merseyside)

WebThe Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership has commissioned Food Active’s parent charity, Health Equalities Group, to develop a ‘prevention pledge’ that will support local NHS Provider Trusts in scaling up evidence-based interventions to address non-communicable diseases. Influence Policy: Local Authority Declaration on

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Five reasons why multiple traffic light front-of-pack nutrition

WebOn the 30 th July 2020 the Government published an open consultation entitled ‘Building on the success of front-of-pack nutrition labelling in the UK: a public consultation’ calling for the submission of views and evidence surrounding front-of-pack nutrition labelling, with a focus on the current system in the UK, multiple traffic light …

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‘Doing school food!’: a practical toolkit for adopting a whole …

Web2 Perspectives in Public Health l Month 2023 Vol XX No X ‘Doing school food!’: a practical toolkit for adopting a whole school food approach OrigiNal research PaPer The physical and mental health

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Food Active Matthew Philpott

WebMatthew is Executive Director of public health charity Health Equalities Group (HEG) which includes two core programmes of work, Food Active and Healthy Stadia. Matthew started his career as an academic researcher, gaining a PhD from University of Warwick in 2001, and going on to complete post-doctoral research in psychology and mental health

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Weight Stigma Local Case Study: Doncaster’s

Web29 Nov 2021. Weight Stigma Local Case Study: Doncaster’s Compassionate Approach to Weight. Holly Campbell is a Public MedMalRxment Coordinator at Doncaster Council, and is currently leading on the Compassionate Approach to Weight across the borough. In this case study Holly will provide detail on how they went about this approach, how

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