Tackling unhealthy food and obesity: teach children so they can teach their families

Briggs argues that governments must adopt wide ranging strategies and policies to tackle unhealthy food and obesity.1 Another of the “key commercial drivers of poor diet and ill health” is a lack of education. Imagine if doctors advised their patients to stop smoking but didn’t tell them why.People will see that their fizzy drinks cost more and that it takes longer to get to a fast food outlet—but will they know where to turn to make healthier food choices? We know more about healthy eating than we ever have—it’s astonishing that we understand so much and yet pass so little on to the general population. It almost seems as if the more we learn, the less healthy the population becomes.Even children in the most deprived areas go to school—why not include those with scientific knowledge about healthy lifestyles in the teams developing school curriculums? Children should start learning in preschool…
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