Obesity and Lifestyle Drift: Framing Analysis of Calorie Menu Labelling in England in News Media.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Successive government public health strategies in England have described structural influences of diet-related ill health, including obesity, while emphasising the solution of individual-level change in policy documents. This entrenchment of an individualistic policy paradigm, despite communicating a recognition of structural determinants of health on paper, has been termed "lifestyle drift." The 2020 government strategy, Tackling Obesity, included policies to address structural determinants of health like the physical and digital food environments but ultimately failed to shift responsibility for diet-related ill health onto structural factors. This study uses the contestation of calorie labelling (CL) in the out-of-home (OOH) sector, one of the strategy's only t

SUBMITTER: Karreman N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12257196 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature