Susan Jebb

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The Food Programme · The Weight of the World · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

And I'm not really sure that gets us very far.

But what is absolutely fascinating is that the concept of ultra-processed food has really made people sit up and think.

So something like 79% of people say they're concerned about the amount of ultra-processed food.

So I think that's a moment where people are beginning to start thinking about where does my food come from?

Who's produced it?

Who's made it?

So I think it's an opportunity for us to re-engage people with food and to think about a...

a different kind of food system where they're more connected to where their food has come from and sort of more connected with preparing their own food as well.

I think we miss the bigger picture and I think we need to see it as a moment where we can reconnect people with a more minimally processed food supply chain.

What I mean is that if we just go in and teach children that broccoli's good and biscuits are bad, it doesn't really get you very far, because actually most people know that already.

So the education's got to be much broader.

It's got to be a broader food literacy, it's got to be about skills, it's got to be about role modelling.

I can compare and contrast a couple of things.

So there have been trials done in the UK in schools which have really been about if you parachute into a school and you do lots of education about health and well-being, what impact does it have?

I mean, three separate trials, very well conducted, absolutely no effect on children's weight.

But instead, what I think we're seeing is these more community-based projects, sometimes which start in schools, often they're at home, which are actually really teaching people food skills, showing them a different way of eating.

So if you could take something like Bags of Taste, for example, which literally delivers bags of food to people's door, helps them and teaches them to cook and shows them a way of being able to prepare food without having to rely on takeaways or ready meals.

And so that's a way both of giving them food skills but also helping them to escape food poverty because it's a whole lot cheaper.

these drugs in particular are making a difference because of the magnitude of weight loss and because of the sheer number of people using them already around 2 million in the uk and rising fast obesity is a serious chronic relapsing health problem and if we can reduce people's weight we'll improve their health so these are incredibly important treatments however

What we know is that it's really hard to keep the weight off.

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