Health and Social Care Committee: Food and Weight Management
Committee hears from witnesses
The Health and Social Care Committee is taking oral evidence on food and weight management. This inquiry examines how food policy, nutrition, and weight-related health interventions affect public health outcomes, with particular attention to the cost pressures facing households trying to access healthy food and the NHS burden of obesity-related illness.
Food and weight management directly affects millions of UK adults and children. Rising obesity rates drive costs across the NHS, while food poverty and the cost-of-living crisis leave many unable to afford nutritious diets. This inquiry will inform parliamentary scrutiny of government food and nutrition policy, and may feed into future health legislation or cross-departmental initiatives on public health.
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