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Healthy choices: Are you being influenced?

Ground floor, both step, and ramp access available double-wide doors and accessible toilet.
Past event - 2017
16 May 19:00-21:30
The View, Sports Centre,
Southampton SO16 7AY
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Have you tried to diet but fallen prey to that craving for sweet fatty foods? How often do you pick up that chocolate bar conveniently placed next to the checkout? Join us to explore the influences on our health behaviour and look at how we can change our habits to make healthier food choices. See the techniques healthcare professionals are using to empower us to make better and healthier choices. 

Please note that this event is accessible for those with impaired mobility and children are welcome.

How do supermarkets shape what we eat?

Christina Vogel (Senior Research Fellow in Public Health Nutrition)
We all know that eating a healthy diet is good for our body and our wellbeing. Supermarkets are a major source of food for many of us, yet the prominent placement and frequent promotion of less healthy foods encourage us to eat unhealthily. We now know that the environment within supermarkets shapes our choices and therefore our diets. How do the price, promotion and placement of products within supermarkets affect these dietary choices, and why do different types of people respond differently?

Healthy conversation skills: to support behaviour change

Wendy Lawrence (Associate professor of health psychology)
Every day millions of people around the world meet with healthcare workers. These meetings are an opportunity to support those people to think about improving their health through changing behaviour, including changing their eating habits. How do we make the most of this opportunity? Here in Southampton we have developed a set of skills to support behaviour change – skills that can be used by healthcare workers of every type and in almost every job and in any situation no matter how brief the contact. We aim to make the great jobs that healthcare workers already do even better.

Eating healthily: why is it so difficult?

Mary Barker (Associate professor of psychology)
Anyone who has ever tried to lose weight or change their eating habits knows how difficult it is.  We know what we should be doing but we just can’t do it.  Our desire for sweet and fatty foods, clever marketing campaigns and lack of money all get in the way. So how do we get around these barriers and eat better? Research is beginning to tell us what we need to know and how we might change the world around us and the decisions we make to lead to healthier food choices.
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