How the government plans to tackle childhood obesity Fiona Simpson Thursday, May 13, 2021
Campaigners are celebrating after the government vowed to ban junk food adverts online and before 9pm on television.
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The negatives are far more concerning. There doesn’t appear to be any extra budget for the new OHP, and there is no concrete information about their strategy, other than a mention of building upon the Prevention Green Paper. This thankfully highlights salt reduction, banning the sale of energy drinks, improving front-of-pack nutrition labelling and improving the nutrition quality of infant food as key priorities.
Also referenced is the recent ‘Working together to improve health and social care for all’ White Paper, which similarly highlighted front-of-pack labelling as a legislative priority. All other measures proposed in the Childhood Obesity Plan and the recent ‘Tackling Obesity’ strategy, released in July 2020, are not referenced. What’s more, those proposed measures are being systematically weakened. A key example is the food and drink advertising industry influencing the online advertising ban which, according to a recent leak, is to be scrapped. This would und
Content Note: This article contains discussion of eating disorders and detailed discussion of obesity.
On 10th November 2020, the Government launched a public consultation on the total ban of the online advertising of unhealthy food, proposed as part of its
Tackling Obesity strategy published in July 2020. This ban would apply to adverts for food and drink products high in fat, sugar and salt online, such as on YouTube and other social media sites.
“A poor-quality diet presents us with some of the UK’s greatest health challenges. In England, 67% of men and 60% of women are overweight or obese, as well as over a quarter of children aged under 16.”
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