Youth Voices for Healthy Choices Podcast
Youth Voices for Healthy Choices
World Obesity Federation
"It's that kind of not... not giving up!" - episode of Youth Voices for Healthy Choices podcast

"It's that kind of not... not giving up!"

35 minutes Posted May 14, 2021 at 8:00 am.
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In this final episode of our mini-series we look at some of the big solutions in action to address obesity, hearing from people working on the front lines at national and local levels. Across different contexts the message is the same: giving up is not an option!

Taxes on products like cigarettes and alcohol have helped enable major public health gains, but can they also work on sugary drinks too? We go to Mexico to hear about the realities of implementing a sugar tax and front-of-package labeling in a country where Coca Cola is king.

Then we travel to London to learn about some innovations in urban health that are improving the lives of children in some of the city's poorest neighbourhoods. Action on childhood obesity should always be evidence-based, but what counts as evidence? And how will we know what works without trying?
 
Finally, hear from some passionate young people in Portugal about what they believe youth engagement could and should look like and what they believe we should prioritize in policymaking.

The episode is co-hosted by Faith Newsome, student researcher and founder of
OCEANS Support and Advocacy Group and Claudia Batz, policy coordinator at World Obesity.

GUESTS

Lesly Vejar @inspmx
Sarah Hickey
@ImpUrbanHealth
Malfado and Pedro
@EU_COCREATE

USEFUL LINKS

Explore
Healthy Voices

Read the
CO-CREATE Youth Declaration

Learn about
the fight for better for better food labelling in Mexico and the Impact on Urban Health childhood obesity programme

Find out more about the
CO-CREATE project 

WHO factsheet on NCDs

Why obesity is a disease too

Thanks to Luwaiza Mirza for her reporting and to
Marina Poole for stellar production and editing. The artwork for the series was designed by multi-talented woman in global health Lilly Khorsand.