Category: Eat Well Age Well Blog

Written by Danielle Gray, Digital Communications Officer for Eat Well Age Well

Come January our televisions are flooded with images of shiny gyms and membership offers. Full page adverts are taken out across newspapers and magazines for Weight Watchers and Slimming World. Billboards and bus stops entice us with celebrity cookbooks and exercise regimes. Whilst it’s not unexpected to put on a few pounds over the festive period and a desire to feel fit and healthy is a positive one, this dominant focus on the benefits of losing weight invites a bigger question – is our diet culture damaging for older people?

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Eat Well Age Well Project Manager Laura Cairns writes for The Herald and shares why 2021 needs to be one of positive change for older people.

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Our Impact & Policy Officer Tilly Robinson-Miles shares some key policy in practice work throughout July 2020, including being a panellist at a roundtable discussion with Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food

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Written for the Scottish Food Coalition, Impact & Policy Officer Tilly shares why the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the need for structural and mindset change towards food.

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Written for the Health & Social Care Alliance, Impact & Policy Officer Tilly shares tips on eating well for older people based on the work of ALLIANCE members, Food Train and Eat Well Age Well.

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Written for the Health & Social Care Alliance, Project Manager Laura Cairns gives an outline of the Eat Well Age Well project and discusses the challenge that malnutrition poses to public health in Scotland.

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