Understanding the barriers to purchasing healthier, more environmentally sustainable food for people living with obesity and varying experiences of food insecurity in the UK.

Stone, Rebecca A.; Christiansen, Paul; Johnstone, Alexandra M.; Brown, Adrian; Douglas, Flora; Hardman, Charlotte A.; FIO-Food Team

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102798

All Outputs (3)

Social capital and improved wellbeing: a qualitative investigation of the Wild Things! Silver Saplings Adventures programme in rural North-East Scotland. (2025)
Journal Article
ADAMS, N.N., MACIVER, E., DOUGLAS, F. and KENNEDY, C. [2025]. Social capital and improved wellbeing: a qualitative investigation of the Wild Things! Silver Saplings Adventures programme in rural North-East Scotland. Journal of gerontological social work [online], Latest Articles. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/01634372.2025.2488020

The Silver Saplings Adventures Programme (SSAP), run by Wild Things! charity in Scotland, enhances older adults' wellbeing through nature-based activities, lifelong learning and social cohesion. This study evaluates SSAP's 2023 impact using remote in... Read More about Social capital and improved wellbeing: a qualitative investigation of the Wild Things! Silver Saplings Adventures programme in rural North-East Scotland..

Understanding the lived experience of low-income UK parents’ and carers’, management of infant feeding challenges in the context of the current cost of living crisis: the Diet and Health Inequalities (DIO Food) project. (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
HUNTER, E. and DOUGLAS, F. [2025]. Understanding the lived experience of low-income UK parents' and carers', management of infant feeding challenges in the context of the current cost of living crisis: the Diet and Health Inequalities (DIO Food) project. [Preprint]. Hosted on OSF: Centre for Open Science [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/4ebwh_v1

As the cost-of-living crisis continues, food charities report increased demand from families with young children and babies, suggesting, infants in low-income UK households are amongst the most food insecure of our citizens. This is concerning, first... Read More about Understanding the lived experience of low-income UK parents’ and carers’, management of infant feeding challenges in the context of the current cost of living crisis: the Diet and Health Inequalities (DIO Food) project..

Understanding the barriers to purchasing healthier, more environmentally sustainable food for people living with obesity and varying experiences of food insecurity in the UK. (2025)
Journal Article
STONE, R.A., CHRISTIANSEN, P., JOHNSTONE, A.M., BROWN, A., DOUGLAS, F., HARDMAN, C.A., on behalf of the FIO-Food Team. 2025. Understanding the barriers to purchasing healthier, more environmentally sustainable food for people living with obesity and varying experiences of food insecurity in the UK. Food policy [online], 131, article 102798. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102798

In westernised countries, food insecurity (FI) is robustly associated with low diet quality, and obesity. Grocery stores are one promising arena for interventions to facilitate purchasing of healthier, more environmentally sustainable food. However,... Read More about Understanding the barriers to purchasing healthier, more environmentally sustainable food for people living with obesity and varying experiences of food insecurity in the UK..