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‘We should be focusing on why we eat, what we eat and how it makes us feel, not how many calories it has’: a photovoice study exploring young people’s views on the out-of-home calorie labelling policy in England and their priorities for changing the local food environment

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-026-26716-7

Published Online: 2026-02-24

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Authors

Er, Vanessa

Forbes, Camilla

Marks, Dalya

Cornelsen, Laura

Breeze, Penny

Kalbus, Alexandra

Law, Cherry

Smith, Richard

Brown, Kerry Ann
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

National Institute for Health and Care Research (grant reference number 204000)
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Article History

Received: 14 November 2025

Accepted: 13 February 2026

First Online: 24 February 2026

Declarations

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: was provided by the LSHTM Ethics Committee (application number: 29882) and the University of Exeter Sports and Health Sciences Ethics Committee at the University of Exeter (application number: 4794730). All participants and their parent/carers/legal guardians provided informed written consent to participate in the study. Additional consent was sought for the use of participants’ photographs for research and educational purposes.

: We gained consent from participants to include the images in this manuscript which are copyrighted to the project.

: The authors declare no competing interests.

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