In its 15th report, ‘Healthy Families: The Present and Future Role of the Supermarket’, the All Party-Parliamentary Group (APPG) on a Fit and Healthy Childhood, whose members include cross-party MPs, outlines how supermarkets can help solve the obesity epidemic by helping families to make healthy changes.
The report states, ‘Supermarkets have become accustomed to the sharp end of a traditionally bad press. Familiar food stores stand accused of nudging unwitting customers into unhealthy buying and encouraging a promotional environment at variance with healthy eating guidelines.
‘Yet by educating and empowering individual family units to make healthy changes, supermarkets can drive the solution to the obesity epidemic instead of attracting a substantial share of the blame.’
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