Welcome to the project website of EATWELL (Interventions to Promote Healthy Eating Habits: Evaluation and Recommendations). Here you can find all relevant information and latest news from the EU-funded research consortium.
Unhealthy diets are one of the greatest public health challenges of the 21st century, and their most visible manifestation, namely overweight and obesity, are dramatically increasing in Europe. In response, European Union (EU) Member States have initiated a variety of national policy interventions to encourage physical activity and healthy eating. However, such interventions have rarely been evaluated in a systematic way.
For the first time, a 3.5 years EU-project (running from April 2009 to September 2012) aims at making an overview of the actions undertaken and identifying gaps, success and failure factors for these campaigns. Its final objective is to provide EU Member States policy makers with best practice guidelines with valuable insights from private sector and communication agencies to develop appropriate policy interventions that will encourage healthy eating across Europe.
What's new
Read 'Interventions to promote healthy eating habits: evaluations and recommendations', published in Obesity Review
Click here to listen to EATWELL’s coordinator, Professor Bruce Traill from Reading University, outline the project’s important research aims and objectives.
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