Welcome to the project website of EATWELL (Interventions to Promote Healthy Eating Habits: Evaluation and Recommendations). Here you can find all relevant information and latest news from the EU-funded research consortium.
Unhealthy diets are one of the greatest public health challenges of the 21st century, and their most visible manifestation, namely overweight and obesity, are dramatically increasing in Europe. In response, European Union (EU) Member States have initiated a variety of national policy interventions to encourage physical activity and healthy eating. However, such interventions have rarely been evaluated in a systematic way.
For the first time, a 3.5 years EU-project (running from April 2009 to September 2012) aims at making an overview of the actions undertaken and identifying gaps, success and failure factors for these campaigns. Its final objective is to provide EU Member States policy makers with best practice guidelines with valuable insights from private sector and communication agencies to develop appropriate policy interventions that will encourage healthy eating across Europe.
What's new
New EATWELL research published; "Policies to promote healthy eating in Europe: a structured review of policies and their effectiveness", in Nutrition Reviews.
This review provides a classification of public policies to promote healthier eating as well as a structured mapping of existing measures in Europe. Complete coverage of alternative policy types was ensured by complementing the review with a selection of major interventions from outside Europe.
Project publishes paper 'Assessment of evaluations made to healthy eating policies in Europe: a review within the EATWELL Project' in Public Health Nutrition
The study highlights the need not only to develop harmonized and verifiable procedures but also indicators for measuring effectiveness and success and for comparing between interventions and countries. EU policies are recommended to provide a set of indicators that may be measured consistently and regularly in all countries. Furthermore, public information campaigns should be accompanied by
other interventions, as evaluations may show an impact on awareness and intention, but rarely on consumption patterns and health outcome.....................read more.
"Do Europeans want governments to direct their eating choices?" EATWELL's Mario Mazzochi presented his preliminary findings at the 11th European Nutrition Conference in Madrid.
EATWELL's researchers ask "Policies for a healthier European diet: are they effective?" during the session "Evaluation of Interventions to Promote Healthy Eating: Results from the EATWELL project" at the 11th European Nutrition Conference.
EATWELL podcast goes live, listen to Jessica Aschemann-Witzel speaking about EATWELL results: how can private sector marketing techniques help improve public health?
EATWELL gives session "Evaluation of Interventions to Promote Healthy Eating: Results from the EATWELL project" at the 11th European Nutrition Conference.
The scientific letter 'EATWELL Project: Approaching European healthy eating policies from a multi-disciplinary perspective' has been published in Nutrition Hospitalaria.
EATWELL's first report 'Review of policy actions, data available for their analysis'and existing evaluations throughout Europe'
Read 'Interventions to promote healthy eating habits: evaluations and recommendations', published in Obesity Review
Click here to listen to EATWELL’s coordinator, Professor Bruce Traill from Reading University, outline the project’s important research aims and objectives.
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