As millions more children return to school this week, research with over 750 parents across the UK shows overwhelming support for the Government extending free school meals to all children in poverty, following their experiences of feeding children during lockdown.
Continue reading “Covid-19 and Children’s Food: Parents’ Priorities for Building Back Better”Join OEN UK Champion Ann Vincent and a panel of leaders in academia, business, policy and other third sector organisations for the Round Table Webinar event, ‘Tackling Obesity: Ensuring Preventative, Educational and Treatment Measures Help Address Obesity among Children and Adults’, hosted by Public Policy Exchange.
Continue reading “Public Policy Exchange Webinar Event: ‘Tackling Obesity’”A group of researchers at the at The University of Oxford want to know your priorities for research about body weight and obesity.
Continue reading “What Matters To You?”Join Professor Rachel Batterham, Founding Member and Chair of OEN UK, and OEN UK Champions Nadya Isack and Ann Vincent at the upcoming ASO webinar to consider the topic of Obesity and Stigma.
Continue reading “Webinar event: Obesity & Stigma”OEN UK welcomes the recent launch of the Government’s obesity strategy which supports the OEN UK mission to make obesity prevention and treatment a national priority, and improve preventative and treatment strategies including access to obesity services.
Continue reading “A Summary of the UK Government’s ‘Tackling Obesity’ Strategy”Obesity Empowerment Network UK Champion Angela Chesworth recently spoke to Alex Hall from The Daily Telegraph.
Continue reading “The need to address the complexities of obesity”Key messages from Professor Rachel Batterham’s article published in the Times RedBox on 15th July. You can read Rachel’s article here.
Continue reading “An effective strategic approach to obesity must recognise obesity as a disease”We are thrilled to share the news that our friends at Food Active have re-launched their Healthy Weight Declaration. The declaration aims to support local authorities and other partner organisations in adopting a systems level approach to supporting healthy weight.
Continue reading “Food Active re-launches the Healthy Weight Declaration”A recently published OEN UK authored comment article, published online by the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, puts forward a call to action in response to the experiences of people living with obesity in the face of COVID-19.
Continue reading “Obesity and COVID-19: A Call for Action from People Living with Obesity”‘A very important milestone has been reached for obesity sufferers: the recognition of their disease’
This recognition has come with a new comprehensive German National Diabetes Strategy.
Continue reading “The German Parliament has recognised that obesity is not a lifestyle issue, but a chronic disease”
