This page highlights various resources summarising our research into dietary public health from the Population Health Interventions programme, 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

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Food policy and general summaries

• What does the World Health Organization’s guidance that non-sugar sweeteners are not effective for weight loss or disease prevention mean for consumers? – Blog, July 2023
• 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)

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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.

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Fiscal interventions

• Sugary drinks tax may have prevented over 5,000 cases of obesity a year in year six girls alone – News, January 2023
• 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 2020
• 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

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Agriculture, trade & food security

• House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee: Food Security – Evidence Submission, September 2022
• 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

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Food prices 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? – Infographic, 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

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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

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Advertising

• Transport for London’s junk food advertising ban linked to reduced purchases of high fat, salt and sugar products – News, February 2022
• 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

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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