Recipe For Health: A Plan to Fix Our Broken Food System Published
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.