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Taking the Pulse of Hospital Food

by Elizabeth Atherton | Mar 23, 2017 | Campaign Updates, News, Climate & Environment

Happy NHS Sustainability Day!  A national day of action across the health sector to highlight the important role of sustainability in health service delivery. Hospital environments that promote food which is both healthy and sustainable are absolutely key to the...

A Healthy and Sustainable Food Future

by Josephine Head | Mar 9, 2017 | Briefings, Headlines, Climate & Environment

In this briefing Medact and Eating Better examine UK dietary guidelines and make recommendations to the UK government on how they can drive the change towards more sustainable – as well as healthier – eating.

Healthy eating advice must be healthy for the planet too, say public health and environmental campaigners

by Elizabeth Atherton | Mar 8, 2017 | Press Releases, Climate & Environment

PRESS RELEASE Contacts: Josephine Head at Medact – [email protected]  – 07585 605201 Elena Salazar at Eating Better – [email protected] – 07849 051492 Healthy eating advice must be healthy for the planet too, say public health and environmental...

How do UK dietary guidelines compare for sustainability?

by Josephine Head | Feb 14, 2017 | Blog, Headlines, Climate & Environment

UK dietary guidelines are designed to promote healthy eating by providing accessible advice to the public. But what we eat doesn’t only impact on our individual health, it also has much larger impacts on the health of our planet – upon which human health is...

Less meat, more veg

by Sue Dibb | Jan 6, 2017 | Blog, Climate & Environment

New analysis identifies the huge gap between a healthy & sustainable diet and what we’re actually eating

Shifting Towards Sustainable Diets – how dietitians can help

by Elizabeth Atherton | Jul 25, 2016 | Blog, Climate & Environment

As we are faced with an increasingly uncertain food future, there is an urgent need to take a sustainable ecological approach to our food system. Dietitians can and should play an important role in this emerging area.

South London GPs linking together patient well-being and sustainable food

by Tytus Murphy | Mar 30, 2016 | Blog, Climate & Environment

The Lambeth GP Food Co-operative was launched in 2013 and is the first project of it’s kind to operate within the NHS. The Co-operative brings…

How environmentally sustainable are the new dietary guidelines?

by Elizabeth Atherton | Mar 17, 2016 | Blog, News, Climate & Environment

  Today saw the launch of the Eatwell Guide – the UK’s official food guide to healthy diets. Astonishingly, despite major changes in eating habits and advances in nutrition science, this is the first review of these guidelines since their original...

Eating Better calls on Government to step up to the plate for our health and the health of the planet

by Elizabeth Atherton | Feb 2, 2016 | News, Climate & Environment

Yesterday, Tuesday 2 February, Eating Better – an alliance of nearly 50 organisations, including Medact – launched its asks of Government – to take urgent action on the unsustainable level of meat in our diets for the sake of our health, and the planet. “With a...

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