Action on Sugar’s letter to David Cameron telling him that Sugar tax MUST be put back on the table was signed by 10 members of the Obesity Health Alliance (including Dr Cheryll Adams from the iHV) members.
The letter was published in the Independent, Guardian and Daily Mail on 22 January.
The Institute is one of a number of signatories of a letter published in the Independent on Saturday 23 January 2016 urging the Government to implement a sugar tax.
Next month, David Cameron launches the Childhood Obesity Strategy. Several bodies, including the iHV, urge the Government to include a tax on sugary drinks to help tackle the obesity crisis as part of its plan.
PHE’s Obesity Knowledge and Intelligence team has updated their child obesity data slide set – updated January 2016
These PowerPoint slides, which contain the latest HSE and NCMP data, present key information on child obesity in clear, easy to understand charts and graphics.
The slides and accompanying notes can be downloaded and used freely with acknowledgement to Public Health England.
The new annual report from the Chief Medical Officer, ‘Health of the 51%: women’, highlights obesity as one of the biggest risks to women’s health, affecting all aspects of a woman’s life from birth, family planning, pregnancy and right through to menopause and later life.
Dr Cheryll Adams, Director of the Institute of Health Visiting (iHV), said: “The Institute is very much aware of the impact of being overweight on the physical and emotional wellbeing of mothers and their children – healthy weight, healthy nutrition being one of the Department of Health’s High Impact Areas for health visitors. To support this, the iHV is rolling out new Healthy Weight, Health Nutrition Champions Training for health visitors in the New Year. In addition, we have our new Ready Steady Mums community activity programme to get new mums together and become active with their children.”
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