Nutrition: Children and Young People

(asked on 12th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to promote healthy eating among children and young people.


Answered by
Lord O'Shaughnessy Portrait
Lord O'Shaughnessy
This question was answered on 25th October 2017

Change4Life is Public Health England’s flagship behaviour change social marketing campaign. It encourages families across England to ‘eat well and move more’.

The campaign uses a variety of tools to provide advice and ideas to help children eat healthily. The Change4Life Sugar Smart and Be Food Smart apps, for example, allow users to scan the bar code of more 100,000 products to see at a glance how much sugar, salt and saturated fat they contain. So far there have been over three million downloads of these apps.

Since its launch, more than four million people have signed up to Change4Life and it now has more than 200 national partners.

In 2016, the Government’s Eatwell Guide was distributed to all primary, secondary and independent schools in England, which included middle, junior, infant and first schools.

Start4Life also helps pregnant mums-to-be and parents of babies aged zero to five to adopt healthy behaviours that give their babies and young children the best start in life.

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