All blog posts by Jennifer O'Mara

Despite some action, responsibility is still placed on individuals in making healthier choices, rather than changing the food environment in which we all live.

Our Policy and Public Affairs team established a tradition last year: every December, we reflect on the past year – good and bad – and look ahead to the next. We’ve crunched the numbers behind what we’ve been up to so let’s begin the count for 2023…

Our new policy indexes show the status of nutrition & physical activity policy in Europe and enable young people to advocate for better policies to tackle obesity

More than 45,000 tonnes of sugar has been removed from soft drinks in the UK following the tax introduced in 2018. Jennifer O'Mara and Ioana Vlad from our Policy team consider the levy's impact

We reflect on this year's achievements, the highs and lows of 2022, and what to expect in 2023

We've added the 1,000th nutrition policy to our NOURISHING database of policies that governments have implemented to promote healthy diets and combat obesity

Jennifer O’Mara looks into the levels of lactation around the world, in particular her home country of Ireland, and explores how rates can be increased