Tags: Obesity, Obesity system, System map, Loop model, Systemic structure, Policy makers, Policy options

The aim of the Foresight Tackling Obesities: Future Choices project was to ‘produce a long term vision of how we can deliver a sustainable response to obesity in the UK over the next 40 years’. In the systems mapping work, a qualitative, causal loop model was developed in order to: help us understand the complex systemic structure of obesity and to contribute to developing a tool that helps policy makers respond to obesity in the generation, definition and testing of possible policy options.