Obesity webinar your questions answered – in pics

Taking part in the webinar – Obesity and health: the big fat, sugar and salt debate – were: Barbara Gallani, director of regulatory, science and health at the Food and Drink Federation; Graham MacGregor, Professor of cardiovascular medicine at Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine; Dr Charlotte Evans, lecturer - nutritional epidemiology and public health nutrition at the University of Leeds and Professor Alan Jackson, director, National Institute for Health Research at Southampton Biomedical Research Centre.

Speakers called for food science to be given a greater role​ in the debate and the roots and remedies of the obesity crisis.

Questions ​

However, a lot remained unclear and we received over 100 questions from people wanting to know more.

Here, we feature the speakers’ choice of the best questions along with their answers –as well as their take on some of the key issues raised during the webinar.

The Institute of Food Science & Technology, the British Dietetic Association and the Nutrition Society backed the webinar, in a bid to introduce more science into the obesity debate.

You can listen back to the webinar here.​