What next for European action on childhood obesity?

by EPHA | Sep 18, 2021

What next for European action on childhood obesity? Debating the follow-up to the EU Action Plan on Childhood Obesity  12 October 2021  15:00-16:00 CEST  The Federation of Enterprises Rue Ravenstein 4, Brussels Childhood obesity is a major health problem in Europe,...

Press Release | Without substantial intervention, child obesity will rise by 2030. But what policies work?

by European Public Health Alliance | Jan 19, 2021 | News Release, Statements

19 January 2021 Globally, 80m adolescents are living with obesity, and without substantial intervention, the figure is due to rise to 150m by 2030. But what interventions work? The STOP Project, funded in 2018 by the European Union to identify new interventions to...

End child obesity by tackling child exposure to unhealthy food marketing

by European Public Health Alliance | Aug 4, 2020 | Consultation Responses

In its response to the consultation on the upcoming EU strategy on the rights of the child, EPHA calls for the adoption of a child rights-based framework to tackle unhealthy food and alcohol marketing. Article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)...

Tackling the Global Syndemic of obesity, under-nutrition and climate change

by European Public Health Alliance | Feb 28, 2019 | Opinion

By Hannah Brinsden, Head of Policy at World Obesity Federation and Fellow of the Lancet Commission on Obesity In January 2019 The Lancet Commission on Obesity published a groundbreaking report ‘The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition and Climate Change’. The...

€10m project launches to tackle Europe’s childhood obesity

by European Public Health Alliance | Jun 5, 2018 | News Release, Statements

If the current wave of childhood obesity is not stopped, more than one in three adults will be obese in some European countries by 2025[1]. A collaboration of 31 research, advocacy and governmental organisations from 16 countries will today (5 June) launch Europe’s...