A study carried out at 19 workplace cafeterias has shown that reducing portion sizes and replacing higher calorie food and drinks with lower calorie options led to workers buying food and drink with fewer calories. Our study suggests that making relatively simple changes to menus in workplace and other cafeterias could make an important contribution […]
Why policy makers get obesity wrong
Blog from Professor Mike Kelly, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Primary Care Unit The coronavirus pandemic has revealed a lot about the health of the UK population. Not least that certain health conditions, including being overweight, are linked to an increased risk from infectious diseases like COVID-19, and perhaps more significantly, that this risk is […]
Could redesigning supermarkets, bars and restaurants ‘nudge’ us away from harmful consumption of food, alcohol and tobacco?
Behavioural and cognitive scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol have just been awarded a prestigious Wellcome Collaborative Award in Science to investigate ways to ‘nudge’ people towards healthier behaviour – to reduce their food and alcohol consumption and to stop smoking – in order to improve health across the population. If people ate […]