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Bite Size: Breaking down the challenge of inner-city childhood obesity

Our new report explores what behavioural science, lived experience, our own work and insights from leading practitioners tell us about one of the biggest urban health challenges of our time.

One of the most comprehensive studies into childhood obesity in inner-city areas, the report concludes that we need to break the link between obesity and income. We need to create environments that make the healthy thing to do, the easy thing to do.

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As an independent, urban health foundation, we work in the London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark on complex urban health challenges. By looking at the global evidence on childhood obesity, we’ve decided to focus our efforts on: 

  • creating environments that improve access to healthy options for all 
  • breaking the link between childhood obesity and income

This report brings together evidence on behaviour change and the experiences of families living in inner-city areas of London, alongside insights from data and learnings from interventions on the ground. Developed in partnership with The Behavioural Insights Team, it features the views of experts in health, education, food and business. 

 

Bite Size launch 

Our event captured rich insights from speakers including journalist Rosie Boycott and chef Jamie Oliver on the barriers and opportunities when tackling child obesity.

Check out the lively panel discussion and other highlights

Shifting from willpower to environments and breaking the link with low incomes

Our key findings

Prioritising your children's happiness
 

Meryem's family

Child obesity has been a growing problem worldwide for the past 40 years

The issue in numbers

Practical principles for tackling childhood obesity
 

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“If you don’t have much money, you go for cheap empty calories”

Views on child obesity

"We hope that future generations will look back and see this time as a significant turning point, when society finally did what was needed to fully respond to the challenge of childhood obesity."

Our Chief Executive Kieron Boyle on meeting the challenge
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