Reshape the food environment to encourage healthier eating patterns

Create an environment that better suits our biology and supports us in developing and sustaining healthy eating and activity habits. Aim to amplify patterns that promote and support healthy eating patterns and damp patterns that encourage unhealthy eating patterns.

 ​​Cost-effective interventions to reduce obesity in the UK

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Tackling obesity in the UK
Tackling obesity
Reshape the food environment to encourage healthier eating patterns
Reduce portion sizes
Reformulate food and beverages
Market unhealthier food responsibly
Encourage healthier meals in the workplace
Improve nutritional standards for food in hospitals
Improve nutritional standards in schools
Eliminate food deserts
Who should reshape the food environment?
16. Urban environment
Encourage individuals and families to make healthier choices
Build partnerships with industry
Adopt a whole systems approach to obesity
Improve obesity training for healthcare professionals
Improve public education, literacy & actions on obesity and nutrition
Shape the physical environment to encourage physical activity
Develop a coherent fiscal, regulatory and governance framework
Invest in employee health and wellbeing
Improve the costs and outcomes of medical interventions
Many obesity policy measures appear to be cost-effective for society
Scarce health resources would be better spent elsewhere
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