Jun. 19 2008
Source Page: National Child Measurement Programme: 2006/07 school year, headline results. 50 p.Found: There is a strong positive relations hip between deprivation and obesity prevalence for children in
Oct. 30 2008
Source Page: National child measurement programme: 2006/07 school year, headline results. 50 p.Found: There is a strong positive relations hip between deprivation and obesity prevalence for children in
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of trends in the level of obesity; and what steps her Department is taking to help tackle obesity.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Government is delivering a wide range of measures to reduce the numbers of both adults and children who are overweight, or living with obesity. To date this includes legislative measures to limit the advertising, and location and price promotion, of less healthy products, and to ensure calorie levels are provided on menus when eating out of the home. Impact assessments for the legislated measures suggest there will be substantial health benefits, as well as savings to the National Health Service, accrued.
We have seen important successes through the Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL), which between 2015 and 2020 has seen sugar levels reduced by 46% in, and over 46,000 tonnes of sugar removed from, products in scope of the levy. Data from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey from 2019 shows that sugar intakes have fallen for some age groups. In older children and adolescents, this appears to be partly driven by soft drinks contributing less to sugar intakes, likely as a result of the changes made to drinks included in the SDIL. Further information from the survey is available at the following link:
A paper on the association of obesity in primary school children and the SDIL suggests that the reduction in the sugar content of soft drinks delivered by the SDIL could have prevented up to 5,000 cases of obesity in girls in the last year of primary school. Reductions were greatest in girls who attended schools in the 40% of the most deprived areas. Further information from the paper is available at the following link:
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004160
The voluntary reformulation programme requires businesses reduce levels of sugar, salt, and calories in everyday food and drink. Levels of sugar have reduced in breakfast cereals, yogurts, and pre-packed milk-based drinks by 15%, 13.5%, and 29.7% respectively, between 2015 and 2020. Levels of salt have reduced in some products by 20%.
Mentions:
1: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) suffering from obesity at age five, the latest report—and it is an extensive study—shows that it is - Speech Link
2: Lord Rooker (Lab - Life peer) The Minister has addressed only obesity. - Speech Link
Written Evidence May. 22 2024
Inquiry: Food, Diet and ObesityFound: FDO0058 - Food, Diet and Obesity Obesity Health Alliance Written Evidence
Jan. 23 2008
Source Page: Healthy weight, healthy lives: a cross-government strategy for England. 56 p.Found: And whilst our focus is rightly on children, we need to see progress on rates of obesity in adults
Written Evidence May. 23 2024
Inquiry: Food, Diet and ObesityFound: FDO0076 - Food, Diet and Obesity Dairy UK Written Evidence
Written Evidence May. 24 2024
Inquiry: Food, Diet and ObesityFound: FDO0115 - Food, Diet and Obesity Transforming UK Food Systems Programme Written Evidence
Written Evidence May. 22 2024
Inquiry: Food, Diet and ObesityFound: FDO0020 - Food, Diet and Obesity University of Cambridge, and University of Cambridge Written Evidence
Mentions:
1: Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (Lab - Life peer) Will children be part of the anti-obesity experiment that is taking place? - Speech Link
2: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) Nearly one in 10 children, 9.2%, start primary school living with obesity, and approximately one in five - Speech Link