hanging people’s behaviour is key to tackling the world’s health, social and environmental problems, such as obesity, sustainable living and cybersecurity. To change behaviour, though, we need to know what works, for whom, where and how. But research is generated far faster than humans can access and use it. A search on Google Scholar for “behaviour change” produced over 60,000 hits for the first six months of 2018. Evidence on behaviour change interventions is also messy. Different terms are often used to describe similar things – “physical activity” and “exercise”, for example. This means different people can often mean different things when discussing or researching behaviour change. This lack of shared vocabulary limits our progress in discovering what interventions work best.
Bill Fulkerson on 03 Jun 20By the age of five, one in four children are either overweight or obese. While easy access to high calorie foods and sedentary lifestyles have driven the rise in childhood obesity in recent years, some children seem able to eat what they like and remain thin, while others gain weight very easily. An individual's risk of gaining weight is strongly influenced by their genes, and some children who gain a lot of weight, are known to have faulty genes.
