The study, called understanding barriers to health behaviours in 13\u201317-year-olds: A whole systems approach in the context of obesity, was funded by Surrey County Council and published in journal Nutrients.<\/p>\n
It featured 27 participants aged between 12 and 16 and interviewed a further 35 people working in either education or youth support.<\/p>\n
It found that young people often saw healthy food options in schools as too expensive, instead opting for cheaper, less nutritious options.<\/p>\n
Young people said school meals “aren’t very healthy” and “really overpriced” compared to options such as supermarket meal deals.<\/p>\n
In less affluent areas of Surrey, sports facilities were also often found to be “run-down or non-existent”, limiting opportunities for participation.<\/p>\n
People working with young people said there was a lack of training to help young people with weight management or specialist help with exercise.<\/p>\n
Professor Jane Ogden, Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Surrey, said: “We can’t simply tell teenagers to ‘eat better and exercise more’ – there are significant, structural issues that need to be addressed at both a community and societal level.<\/p>\n
“By spotlighting these barriers, we can start creating a fairer and more supportive environment that will help young people in Surrey access healthier choices and have an opportunity to thrive.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The study, called understanding barriers to health behaviours in 13\u201317-year-olds: A whole systems approach in the context of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4318],"tags":[105,4434,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-160181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-nutrition","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114630729876631454","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}