Moore, S orcid.org/0000-0002-0249-8645 and Butler, T (2022) UK government delays restriction of promotions on less-healthy foods: Serious implications for tackling obesity. Obesity, 30 (9). pp. 1722-1723. ISSN 1930-7381
Abstract
Regulations ensuring that the promotion and advertising of foods high in fat, sugar, and salt were restricted from October 2022 are now to be delayed by the UK Government. The delay of this policy is to be condemned because it will set back the anticipated improvement to population diets and obesity levels by postponing the expected transformation of retail food environments in-store and online. Governmental justifications for delaying these policies, the implementation of which was the responsibility of the UK food industry, can be perceived to reflect a short-sighted willingness to use the current economic circumstances to push the responsibility for obesity and dietary choices back into the court of the consumer. Delaying these polices will, yet again, leave public health and clinical practitioners tackling obesity with less-effective approaches focused on individual willpower and information provision.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. Obesity published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of The Obesity Society (TOS). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Food Science and Nutrition (Leeds) > FSN Chemistry and Biochemistry (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 22 Sep 2022 11:22 |
Last Modified: | 22 Sep 2022 11:22 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/oby.23524 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:191228 |