This evidence brief focuses on how early life nutrition, including prenatal exposures, caregiver feeding practices and childhood eating behaviours, contributes to overweight and obesity risk in children.

Eating less salt could see Australians collectively living an extra 36,000 healthy years in the next two decades, this Grattan Institute report finds. Each year, it would prevent more than 300 deaths while saving money, freeing up health spending equivalent to 6000 hospital visits.

This briefing aims to support local authorities in England to maximise their local scope for action to improve health and tackle inequalities by addressing tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food.

The overarching recommendation in this report is for the UK government to step up and bring forward an industrial strategy for food and farming. The authors argue that it should provide farmers with more support and greater certainty, intervene to rebalance risk and power across the whole supply chain, build a renewed connection between the...

There is growing international consensus that food systems transformation is important to address the challenges of malnutrition in all its forms, the burden of noncommunicable diseases, environmental sustainability, increasing inequality and ensuring the welfare of workers and animals. This information brief synthesizes the evidence on the role of red and processed meat production and consumption...