Soc&Env: The ‘Food Environment’: Evidence and best practice relating to improving food skills and perceptions

The Faculty of Public Health recommends that local authorities: ¹

implement initiatives such as cooking clubs to encourage and develop cooking skills, and increase nutritional knowledge
integrate measures to address food poverty within existing local programmes and strategies, such as local obesity strategies
produce local information to explain the importance of healthy diet and what constitutes a healthy diet, as well as listing local suppliers where good quality affordable food is available.

References

Faculty of Public Health, “Food Poverty and Health,” 2005

The Faculty of Public Health recommends that local authorities: ²

implement initiatives such as cooking clubs to encourage and develop cooking skills, and increase nutritional knowledge
integrate measures to address food poverty within existing local programmes and strategies, such as local obesity strategies
produce local information to explain the importance of healthy diet and what constitutes a healthy diet, as well as listing local suppliers where good quality affordable food is available.

References

Faculty of Public Health, “Food Poverty and Health,” 2005
Faculty of Public Health, “Food Poverty and Health,” 2005