Great first day at ECO, learning about the implications of food marketing research for policy and measures Portugal have put in place for obesity prevention at Jen O’Mara (RNutr) WHO/Europe EASO

It was so lovely to meet Julie Aarestrup , a WCRF International grant holder and listen to her presentation!

Some great sessions have taken place over the last two day at #ECO2024 & huge congrats to Becky Evans for winning the ECN best thesis award for her research on food marketing on video game live-streaming platforms 🥳

UK general election to take place on 4 July, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces Follow live coverage bbc.in/3UVr4C7

📸 cereal promoter on a retail site: In Mexico, we managed to protect children from #junkfood by banning cartoon characters on packaging. How did multinational corporations respond? w/every possible strategy to continue capturing our children, showing zero social responsibility

📰 #ECO2024 is in the news! Child video gamers exposed to 52 mins of junk food ads per hour. telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/1… @EASOPresident

The World Health Organization (WHO) wants the next UK government to expand coverage of the levy to help tackle tooth decay, obesity, diabetes and other illnesses. theguardian.com/society/articl…

Great to hear Wes Streeting MP on BBC Radio 4 Today, talking about how restricting sales of high energy drinks will; 👧 🦷 support child heath and wellbeing 👩‍🏫support teachers with learning, and 🥤 support parents who are unaware of what their kids are buying. #ChildHealth

These colleagues are fantastic but an all male panel is not ok. Gender equity means tackling power inequities. We need everyone – not just women – to call this out, say no to being on such panels, don’t organise such panels. #2024Stillhappening

.Mike Ryan is an outstanding colleague, public health expert and leader. It is an honour working with him. This recognition by Aidan Crotty, and Irish people in general, is absolutely well-deserved. Mike is an incredible ambassador of your proud nation. I look forward to

🎉We’ve launched our Policy Priorities to prevent cancer 🗣️We need bold action by the next government to raise cancer prevention on the political agenda by acting in our 5 priority areas 🍟 Immediate action is needed on 9pm TV/Online advertising policies of less healthy food

Newcastle council is calling time on junk food. New restrictions prevent takeaways from opening within 400m of a school or where more than 10% of Year 6 pupils are obese. Which is pretty much everywhere in Newcastle. A big day for #HealthNation. chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-eas… 1 of 3

🚨🤓Paper alert! Adolescents in the UK consume 66% of their calories from UPFs, and more disadvantaged groups consume more UPFs, highlighting concerning dietary disparities during adolescence. Full paper here: rdcu.be/dN1SW Zoi Toumpakari Esther van Sluijs BristolUniCPH

V welcome to see previous gov commitments on smoke free generation and restricting junk food advertising make it into the #KingsSpeech. These are important but a whole gov focus will be needed to do the heavy lifting on prevention and inequals. Read👇 health.org.uk/publications/l…

It's really encouraging to hear reference to advertising of less healthy food and drink to children and the sale of high caffeine energy drinks in the #KingsSpeech. These are essential policies to protect child health with enforcement long overdue

Really disturbed to see this in Tesco yesterday. These sugary / ultra processed products are not good choices for growing children’s school snacks or lunch boxes. Get with the times please Tesco! Obesity Health Alliance The Food Foundation

BBC News - City planning junk food advertising ban bbc.com/news/articles/…

Today we have issued our open letter to the Prime Minister, giving our support for new policy reforms, allowing the planning system to better support the creation of healthy, active local communities and reduce health inequalities. #PowerToPlaces obesityhealthalliance.org.uk/2024/09/12/loc…

We very much welcome today’s announcement. For too long the food industry has consistently pushed back on these incoming restrictions on advertising unhealthy food on TV before 9pm, and online at any time, saying they need to have ‘more time to prepare’.  Not anymore!

Junk food TV ads to be banned pre-watershed in UK from October 2025 theguardian.com/politics/2024/…