TUKFS Connect:Guiding healthy and sustainable food choices @ukriforresearchers
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This TUKFS Connect webinar will explore how food systems can be designed to support healthier and more environmentally sustainable diets through practical, evidence based interventions that act at the point of choice.

Drawing on findings from two Transforming UK Food Systems (TUKFS) projects, SNEAK and SUS Health, the session focuses on how menu design, information provision and pricing can influence food choices in real world institutional settings, including schools, universities, hospitals and workplaces.

00:00 Welcome from Dr Tracey Duncombe, TUKFS KE Fellow

02:16 Professor Lynn Frewer – Introducing the SusHealth concept (a combined label to inform sustainable AND healthy food decisions

08:49 Understanding preferences for label designs

10:13 Assessing the validity of SusHealth at scale

12:50 How the SusHealth label could work alongside other policy measures

15:29 Dr Leona Lindberg – Development and testing of the SusHealth Index

18:26 Living lab experiment in a Belfast restaurant

21:46 Results

27:01 Professor Jeff Brunstrom – Introducing the SNEAK concept – can changing the competition structure between dishes on a menu be used to optimise diets for health and sustainability?

36:10 Dr Annika Flynn – testing the proof of concept in catered Halls of Residence – Results

39:14 Dr Clark’s summary of SNEAK

41:16 Simulating the potential impact across UK hospital inpatient meals and next steps to develop user friendly tools

44:14 Q&A

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