This is an important week for food and health inequalities campaigners with the launch of two interconnected strategies related to the COVID-19 crisis. Welcomed are measures that tackle the power of food industry for example, to shape the eating habits of children, as are those to feed hungry children. Neither strategy tackles the underlying causes …
COVID-19: ‘Obesity’ & ‘Hunger’ – the new obesity & food strategiesRead More »
As we enter the Covid recovery period Laurentina, who runs food distribution service in deprived area of Deptford, London SE8, says ‘we’re preparing for dark times’. With other mothers in the community centre she is stepping up grant applications to feed hungry children, collecting second hand clothes and building the community network of support through …
(image source Critical Dietetics) End Racism – Jobs for ALL – Homes for ALL – Food for ALL I’m posting this statement from the WORLD CRITICAL DIETETICS BOARD, with my solidarity and commitment to fighting for fundamental societal change to bring about equal rights and justice. reprinted from https://criticaldieteticsblog.com/ World Critical Dietetics (WCD) stands in …
The Future of Public Health Nutrition is a research collaboration that I am building to collect evidence about the impact of cuts and privatisation of public health nutrition (PHN) services on the Covid 19 crisis. It examines PHN capacity to feed ALL in need during the crisis, and in its wake that brings economic crisis …
Stop the top-down public health approach – talk to the communities! While its fantastic to see and hear the singing from lockdowns in Italy. The reality, for many, will be very different. Many of our council estates are not suitable for isolation. I lived in this block for 20 years. On the Pepys Estate in …
Covid 19 Food Planning: resources and distributionRead More »
UK public debt increased following the bailouts of the banks in the financial crisis 2008. Austerity was the political and economic tool – the neoliberal project – used to reduce the debts incurred in the bailout by cutting public spending. As a consequence, the UK suffered unprecedented cuts across our public services. This is alongside …
Budget, Covid-19 and ethic of care in feeding our childrenRead More »
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), used the phrase “window of opportunity” to describe the international community’s response to Coronavirus. As global fear about the unknown consequences has spread, we’ve seen stock markets take even deeper falls than during the 2008 financial crisis. Some companies are hit by crisis, while …
Covid-19: ‘windows of opportunity’ for a neoliberal pandemicRead More »
Ten million voted for the Corbyn and McDonnell project. The vast majority of young people voted for progressive policies that focus on tackling inequalities, including inequalities in child health, through providing social rights that would reduce food poverty, halve food banks in one year and introduce universal free school meals (primary age). And, this to …
‘BAN eating on public transport, says nanny-in-chief Dame Sally Davies in radical plan to fight obesity’ As she steps down as CMO Dame Sally Davies has given further example of the disconnect between policy and social reality of inequalities. Her call for a banning of eating on buses can be critiqued in many ways. In …
Weight bias in the UK is rife. It has become part of a hostile environment of stigmatisations and discriminations that promotes social divisions and allows inequalities to flourish. Creating social hostility towards specific groups of people can be due to political decisions or unintended consequences of policy. Social issues can become politicised in order to …