{"id":3194,"date":"2017-07-28T08:35:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T08:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:15","slug":"fast-food-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2017\/07\/28\/fast-food-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Food Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Analysis by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/inequality\/2017\/jul\/25\/large-rise-takeaway-shops-highlights-dominance-fast-food-deprived-areas-england\">Guardian has mapped fast food with social inequality and deprivation.<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">One of the key concerns is that access to fast food will increase obesity. See this useful blog posting by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk\/2016\/10\/21\/obesity-and-the-environment-the-impact-of-fast-food\/\">Public Health England<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The UK Health Forum \u2013 Healthy places website has <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthyplaces.org.uk\/themes\/access-to-healthy-food\/hot-food-takeaways\/\">also considered the impact of the environment on public health<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> and its website has a good set of links to useful reports and websites.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">A useful mapping tool locates takeaways and fast food outlets by local region. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cedar.iph.cam.ac.uk\/feat\/\">Food environment assessment tool (Feat<\/a>) has been developed by CEDAR and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk\/\">MRC Epidemiology Unit<\/a> at the University of Cambridge.\u00a0 It allows for detailed exploration of the geography of food retail access across England. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis by the Guardian has mapped fast food with social inequality and deprivation. One of the key concerns is that access to fast food will increase obesity. See this useful blog posting by Public Health England The UK Health Forum \u2013 Healthy places website has also considered the impact of the environment on public health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[107,204,93],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociology","tag-health","tag-inequality","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3195,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions\/3195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}