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About our strategy
Haringey has high overweight and obesity rates. 48.7% of adults are overweight or obese, and 23% of reception children and 38% of Year 6 children are overweight or obese (by the National Child Measurement Programme classification).
Our Healthy Weight Strategy has been put together with partners to promote healthy weight and tackle obesity using an evidence-based approach.
Our approach
We know that tackling obesity is complex and evidence suggests that any single intervention is unlikely to be effective on its own. The Tackling Obesities report identifies over a hundred contributing factors.
Download our Tackling Obesities report:
Tackling obesities: Future choices – Project report
We are tackling obesity by developing an approach which seeks to understand how things are related, and how they influence one another within the whole system. This includes a range of interventions which rely less on choices by individuals and more on impacting communities through strong public policy that promotes behaviour change.