WEEK 5- CHALLENGING (REDUCING) OBESITY AND OVERWEIGHT II: INTERVENTION FROM A BEHAVIOURAL PERSPECTIVE

Question 1

What has been distorted?

Answer 1

a normative view of what a healthy weight is

Question 2

what do parents say they struggle with?

Answer 2

to recognise what a healthy weight actually is

Question 3

what is main challenge of losing weight?

Answer 3

keeping the weight off once you have lost it ie maintainence

Question 4

what statistics by the NWCR show it is quite easy to lose weight?

Answer 4

45% of participants lost the weight on their own and the other 55% lost weight with some type of programme

Question 5

what is the first step to losing weight?

Answer 5

recognizing that they need to take action

Question 6

what can BMI and central adiposity be predicted by?

Answer 6

maternal education

Question 7

what are the differences between weights of boys and girls based on?

Answer 7

diet

Question 8

what did the article ‘the global obesity pandemic’ find what the main cause

Answer 8

the food

Question 9

what have been the go to interventions in the past?

Answer 9

behavioural interventions

Question 10

what is the problem with behavioural interventions?

Answer 10

treat these people with physical activity dietary behaviour but then send them back to the environment that was making them obese- a bit of a revolving door

Question 11

what does little for the distribution of health in society?

Answer 11

focusing on those at risk of health and treating those at risk of poor health - isolates them- need to shift it to be the norm

Question 12

what is there a huge push for intstead of behavioural interventions

Answer 12

community prevention

Question 13

why in the netherlands do 60% of people cycle to work and what does this show about obesity prevention?

Answer 13

the environment is conducive to cycling- need to make the environment more conducive to losing weight

Question 14

what is least likely to reduce health inequalities?

Answer 14

information provision

Question 15

why might children not be walking to school anymore?

Answer 15

20 years ago everyone went to the local primary school- now everyone has higher aspirations and goes to a school further away- must drive

Question 16

what did a paper in 2017 demostrate about calorie labelling?

Answer 16

no affect on behaviour when calories labelled

Question 17

what do we need to consider if we know that there is a social gradient?

Answer 17

need to support those at the bottom of the social gradient the most

Question 18

who are the least likely to benefit from these behavioural interventions?

Answer 18

those at the bottom of the social gradient- equity effects

Question 19

why is information provision so difficult?

Answer 19

because there is so many mixed messages from advertisements- especially on how cheap fast food is

Question 20

what is an example of how the view of healthy eating has been distorted?

Answer 20

master chef

Question 21

what is the traditional view of the disadvantaged?

Answer 21

you are either one or the other- now know there is a social gradient

Question 22

what were the most effective types of interventions found?

Answer 22

pricing interventions- most effective in groups with lower SEP. all interventions that combined taxes and subsidies decreased inequalities

Question 23

what type of intervention is price intervention?

Answer 23

upstream intervention

Question 24

what did upstream interventions categorised as ‘price’ appear to decrease?

Answer 24

inequalities

Question 25

what are downstream interventions also known as?

Answer 25

person interventions eg dietary counselling

Question 26

what did downstream interventions seem to increase?

Answer 26

increase inequalities

Question 27

do we need to focus on upstream or downstream interventions?

Answer 27

upstream interventions

Question 28

what are upstream interventions also named as?

Answer 28

structural interventions

Question 29

how do upstream interventions work?

Answer 29

they alter the legislation of the environment leading to the prevention of obesity

Question 30

what are examples of downstream interventions?

Answer 30

media campaigns that aim to raise awareness regarding healthy eating/ information provision

Question 31

why don’t we create and environment where the healthy option is the default option?

Answer 31

because there is a lot of money in the food industry

Question 32

what do upstream strategies relate to?

Answer 32

financially driven strategies

Question 33

what restrictions are not always enforced?

Answer 33

restrictions on food restaurants next to schools

Question 34

how much have food prices risen by in the last decade?

Answer 34

20%

Question 35

which country and when introduced a 10% sugar tax on sugar- sweetened beverages

Answer 35

Mexico in 2014

Question 36

in the first year of Mexico’s sugar tac policy how much did sales decrease by?

Answer 36

12%

Question 37

since 2010 a number of what measures have been introduced by the now conservative government?

Answer 37

austerity measures- they have hit the poorest areas of the UK the hardest

Question 38

what type of solutions do we need?

Answer 38

preventative

Question 39

what do we need to target?

Answer 39

we need to target key drivers of overconsumption in the food environment