Obesity Health Alliance

The Obesity Health Alliance (OHA) has welcomed the Health and Social Care Committee’s latest report, which calls on the Government to turn its obesity “moonshot” ambition into a clear, credible and deliverable plan. 

The report scrutinises the Government’s commitment in the 10 Year Health Plan for England to “end the obesity epidemic” and concludes that there...

The Inquiry report calls for urgent action to address the “indefensible failure of people living with obesity who need access to support” by recognising obesity as a chronic, relapsing condition and treating accordingly. 

Today the Health and Social Care Select Committee has published their findings from their inquiry into weight management services and concl...

New OHA analysis highlights the growing gap between modern nutrition science and the rules used to regulate food advertising and promotions.

Many products that most people would regard as unhealthy are currently able to escape restrictions on advertising and promotions because they pass a nutrition model developed more than 20 years ago, according to

Malcolm Clark, Senior Prevention Policy Manager at Cancer Research UK, reflects on one year since the restrictions on multi-buy promotions of less healthy food took effect in England – and as they come into force in Scotland – in this latest guest blog.

BOGOFs (Buy-one-get-one-free). Once synonymous with the supermarket e...