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Innovate UK 2023
"Given its potential socio-economic impacts,
Felicitous Foodology's proposed solution is a good case for public funding
that would represent good value for money for the taxpayer"
"Felicitous Foodology have great potential to be an inspirational leader in the space "
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. Felicitous Foodology have created the first UK School-Based PSHE digital teaching tool to help reduce childhood obesity.
Providing a scalable, impactful
and economic solution to help solve this problem.
Delivering a proven preventative intervention
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Course content written by Leyla Kandemir, Nutritionist / former year 5 teacher and Dilara Içbudak, Dietitian
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The shape we are in, should we teach children about obesity? Or should we bury our heads in the sand because talking about obesity might offend?
Our eating habits have changed. Our food environment has changed. Over the last few decades many millions of people all over the world...
Leyla Kandemir Nutritionist/ Former year 5 teacher
Apr 42 min read
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Will the Junk Food Ad Ban 2025 Work, to help reduce childhood obesity?
The government have finalised a new law that will prevent children being exposed to TV adverts for unhealthy food products before the 9pm...
Leyla Kandemir Nutritionist/ Former year 5 teacher
Feb 181 min read
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A ban on junk food adverts being shown on TV before 21:00 will come into force on 1 October 2025, the government has confirmed. Will it work I ask?
Labour said the watershed on junk food advertising would be enforced alongside a total ban on paid-for online adverts, both aimed at...
Leyla Kandemir Nutritionist/ Former year 5 teacher
Jan 242 min read
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I ask 90 year 5 pupils, why do you need to eat food? And a sea of hands goes up in the air!! Â
And I used to think this is great, until I got the same 3 answers, no matter what school or what area. 1.      Food tastes good 2.      ...
Leyla Kandemir Nutritionist/ Former year 5 teacher
Nov 24, 20242 min read
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Do our primary school aged pupils need to be taught nutrition in schools? Yes!!
Do these children benefit from audio-visual aid programmes such as Felicitous Foodology's whole school nutrition approach? Â YES! We need...
Leyla Kandemir Nutritionist/ Former year 5 teacher
Nov 12, 20243 min read
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Much Ado About Nothing. Labour’s obesity clampdown! These adverts for ultra-processed junk foods need to be banned not just until 9.00pm, but banned full stop, they are encouraging very bad habits!
Products classified as ‘less healthy’ under the government’s nutrient profiling model, and falling into one of 13 categories including...
Leyla Kandemir Nutritionist/ Former year 5 teacher
Oct 29, 20243 min read
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In 2015 Newsround (BBC) commissioned a survey with more than 1,400 children across the UK. They found that more than half the children did not eat one single portion of the recommended 5- a day!
The survey also showed that 52 children in every 100 did not eat any vegetables and 44 in every 100 did not eat fruit on a daily basis....
Leyla Kandemir Nutritionist/ Former year 5 teacher
Oct 22, 20242 min read
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"Extra-large" school uniform shop to shock parents about childhood obesity. Whoever wins the UK election today, needs to address the childhood obesity plan, because it’s not working!
In 2016 Cancer research promoted this brilliant campaign. 8 years later, in 2024 we still have nothing in place. Report published in the...
Leyla Kandemir Nutritionist/ Former year 5 teacher
Jul 4, 20242 min read
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19 out of 20 year 5 and 6 pupils had no knowledge of the health risks associated with eating a diet high in fast food and ultra-processed foods
As part of healthy eating week 2024 Felicitous Foodology funded 20 families in Essex who home school their year 5 and 6 aged children,...
Leyla Kandemir Nutritionist/ Former year 5 teacher
Jun 19, 20241 min read
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Sharing in the community builds connections, skills and valuable relationships, which in turn facilitates a sense of belonging that also creates value for the community as a whole.
In April 2024, Felicitous Foodology and CHP implemented The Daily Dietary Dish, a 5-week nutrition and cookery programme for adults,...
Leyla Kandemir Nutritionist/ Former year 5 teacher
May 31, 20241 min read
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Nutrition and cookery lessons for adults are vital in communities
Working in partnership with CHP the largest not-for-profit housing association in Essex. February 2024 and our adult nutrition and...
Leyla Kandemir Nutritionist/ Former year 5 teacher
Mar 7, 20241 min read
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Why our children need to learn to cook.
With more emphasis needing to be placed on home cooking these days and less on eating fast foods and ultra processed foods, eating a...
Leyla Kandemir Nutritionist/ Former year 5 teacher
Aug 30, 20232 min read
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There has never been a more prevalent time for the subject of nutrition to have a place in schools.
School Obesity Prevention Recommendations. (Harvard School of Public Health) With good evidence that school-based prevention programs can...
Leyla Kandemir Nutritionist/ Former year 5 teacher
Aug 8, 20232 min read
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Global obesity crisis, its time to start teaching nutrition in our schools.
The World Obesity Federation's 2023 atlas predicts that 51% of the world, or more than 4 billion people, will be obese or overweight...
Leyla Kandemir Nutritionist/ Former year 5 teacher
Jul 29, 20232 min read
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Family Cookery working in the community to improve diets and social relations a partnership with CHP
A case study that forms part of the Big Lottery Fund National Well-being Evaluation CLES Consulting was commissioned in 2008. It proved...
Leyla Kandemir Nutritionist/ Former year 5 teacher
Jul 27, 20232 min read
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Nutrition needs to be part of the primary school curriculum.
What are we waiting for ? Following NEAPS 1999 pilot programme positive changes were seen in children's eating behaviour for healthier...
Leyla Kandemir Nutritionist/ Former year 5 teacher
Jul 26, 20232 min read
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