Improving the nation’s health through tackling obesity
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By Stephen Colegrave
It’s an uncomfortable truth: obesity is one of the biggest predictors for premature death in the UK today. It affects 35 million adults, and Nesta’s Healthy Life Mission aims to halve its prevalence by 2030.
To investigate the opportunities and challenges, Nesta chief executive Ravi Gurumurthy chaired a roundtable gathering of health experts from across the food industry, the NHS, academia and the third sector. It brought together different perspectives on the problem, exploring how Nesta can help find solutions. The discussion was held under the Chatham House rule, and here’s what we learned.
Understanding the issues around obesity
Nesta is approaching the obesity challenge primarily through the goal of improving food environments. That embraces physical factors like the availability of healthy, affordable options on our shelves and the influence of food advertising, but also people’s individual circumstances – like their income or their ability to travel to sh...
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