
Hannah Brinsden
@hannahbrins
Food Policy PhD. Expertise in strategy, advocacy, obesity, nutrition policy and NCDs. My own views.
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14-12-2009 21:22:06
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To improve the nation's health, we need to ensure everybody can afford and access nutritious food. That's why the The Food Foundation is asking policymakers to make urgent changes to our #foodsystem. Watch the video: tinyurl.com/238yyta3 #NourishingTheNation


📢 Did this week's spring #Budget do enough to help families struggling with the #CostOfLivingCrisis? Our Head of Policy and Advocacy Hannah Brinsden examines the key points for our latest #podcast 🎧 Listen in full here: bit.ly/3T9Yvjn


Thanks The Sutton Trust for the opportunity to be part of this discussion and bring in issues around school and holiday hunger, food insecurity and school food.

Does this look familiar? Last year, we reimagined a famous political slogan to capture the attention of MPs about how many children are missing out on #FreeSchoolMeals Today on International School Meals Day Day, join us in urging policymakers to expand FSM coverage. #FeedTheFuture

📢 Children's health is on the ballot at the upcoming #MayoralElections due to the impact of: 🍎 Lack of access to #HealthyDiets 🏭 Impact of #AirPollution 🧠 Rising #MentalHealth issues 🎧 Find out more in our latest #podcast with guest narrator Theo Michaels -


Important new report from The Food Foundation reveals a hugely important agenda for the incoming UK government on #foodenvironments Height of 5 year-olds falling since 2013 #Obesity among 10-11 year-olds up 30% Type 2 #diabetes among under 25s up 22% tinyurl.com/384fba2n



Speaker Hannah Brinsden from The Food Foundation shares how more links are needed between food and health policy, and more consistency between #g20 presidencies to achieve more progress



📌 How can we make children in the UK the healthiest in the world? Our Head of Policy and Advocacy Hannah Brinsden is speaking at a Conservatives Party Conference event with Chris Smyth of The Times and The Sunday Times MP Dr Ben Spencer Johnny Luk of Cast from Clay Colette Marshall of Diabetes UK


Up next - Conservatives Party Conference! How we can make UK children the healthiest in the world? Chair: Chris Smyth, joined by MP Dr Ben Spencer, ColetteMarshall Diabetes UK, Hannah Brinsden The Food Foundation Johnny Luk Cast from Clay & Matt Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation #RecipeForChange


📢 'We can't expect obesity to reduce unless the food industry changes its behaviour and we can't expect it to change unless we tackle the incentives in which businesses operate' Our Executive Director Anna Taylor reviews the newly published House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee report about