Update:
Following the report’s publication, a new podcast series has been launched, entitled ‘Unpacking the Evidence: fixing our broken food system’. Over two episodes, the Committee Chair, Baroness Walmsley, takes listeners on a deep dive through the evidence presented to the Committee.
Links to listen to the podcast – alongside further background information – are available here. It is also available on all major podcast platforms and YouTube.
The House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee has today published its report ‘Recipe for health: a plan to fix our broken food system’.
The report finds that obesity and diet-related disease are a public health emergency that costs society billions each year in healthcare costs and lost productivity. It demands that the Government should develop a comprehensive, integrated long-term new strategy to fix our food system, underpinned by a new legislative framework.
The Food, Diet and Obesity Committee was appointed by the House of Lords in January 2024 to consider the role of foods, such as ‘ultra-processed foods’, and foods high in fat, salt and sugar, in a healthy diet and tackling obesity, with a remit to report by the end of November 2024. The Government will publish its response to the report within two months.
At the upcoming BAPEN Conference, Kevin Whelan will deliver a very timely keynote lecture on ultra-processed foods and gastrointestinal disease.
