Cities will determine the health and wellbeing of populations in the 21st century: Threat or opportunity?

Building a case for action The environment in which we move, work, learn, play, and eat determines our potential to achieve good health. Concrete jungles, food desserts, roads which resemble car parking lots, overpowering air and noise pollution, obesogenic environments, and isolation among density are not uncommon features of urban living – all of which …

Advertisement

Media Monthly: What a vegan mockumentary can teach us about public health

Welcome to 2067, a meat-free futuristic utopia where veganism is the new norm. Picture-perfect, healthful, happy youths cannot come to terms with the gruesome fact that their ancestors consumed meat – whilst remorseful elders attend intensive therapy to help swallow their un-camembert-able past. And so begins the journey to understand how the world was, and where …

Changing 5-a-day to 10-a-day would be bananas

Last week, the UK news was flooded with the message that we should be eating 10 portions of fruit and veg a day, not 5. If we all ate 10 portions of fruit and vegetables, 7.8 million premature deaths a year worldwide would be avoided, the media reported. As a DPhil student in public health, …