Categories: Health

Anti-obesity strategy to be reviewed due to cost-of-living crisis


Katharine Jenner, director of the Obesity Health Alliance, a coalition of 40 organisations, said axing measures in the strategy would “not help the cost of living crisis in the short term, and in the long term would lead to serious consequences for our health, our economy and our NHS”.



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