Obesity

For four years, I served as the Chair of London's Child Obesity Taskforce. The taskforce was set up as an independent body by the Mayor to London, Sadiq Khan, to make recommendati

Last autumn London’s Child Obesity Taskforce published Every Child a Healthy Weight: 10 Ambitions for the city’s children, containing 20 specific calls-to-action to the capital’s leaders.

Everything is connected. So says Professor Corinna Hawkes, in a simple three word sentence - that pretty much explains everything -in the middle of a recent fabulous blog on her The Better Food Journe

I sent this letter to the Prime Minister on 17 July 2020, ahead of his welcomed and anticipated-to-be-significant review of the National Obesity Strategy: Dear Prime Minister, I hope this lette

First Publsihed on the London.gov website on 31 January 2020 Now that the dust has settled following the publication of 'Every Child a Healthy Weight' I’ve taken a moment to reflect on
First published on the London.gov website 5 Setpember 2019 Eighteen months ago, I submitted my first job application in over 20 years. It was a long shot, but one that I was surprise

I became a food entrepreneur in my mid-thirties. The lightbulb moment, that trigger to do it, happened as I watched my daughter Ella grow up happily, ‘winning’ at her all-important journey towards

Lent was quite a big thing in my childhood and over the years I gave up everything, from crisps and sweetened breakfast cereals to, bizarrely, Dr Who. Sometimes my Lent restraints remained permanent,