Alicia Weston
Appearances
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: From rescue to romance
People in poverty are eating the worst diets and they are getting sicker younger. And we know that diets are the single largest cause of health inequalities in the UK.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: From rescue to romance
They were great lessons, really great and social, and people were benefiting in many social ways, but they were not changing what they ate at home.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: From rescue to romance
So what we do now is we deliver all the ingredients to their door because ultimately behaviour change starts with actually changing your behaviour at home.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: From rescue to romance
So when they graduate the programme, we post them more recipes. We did a long-term follow-up six months after doing the course. And what we saw was that 86% of participants who had not been cooking regularly before... We're cooking more.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: From rescue to romance
We had one woman, she was about 90 years old, and when she received her certificate, she told us that she'd never had a certificate before in her life and she was going to frame it.