WHO Guidelines to protect children from the harmful impact of food marketing

WHO Guidelines
News
WHO released guidelines
What
Policy recommendations to protect children from harmful food marketing promoting unhealthy dietary choices
Highlights
Uses child definition from Convention on the Rights of the Child
Policies should protect all children
Mandatory policies to protect children from marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages with high
Saturated fatty acids
Trans-fatty acids
Free sugars
Salt
Countries must use a nutrient profile model
Policies must be comprehensive enough to minimize intra and inter-medium migration to avoid marketing restrictions in regulated channels or settings
How
Based on WHO recommendations from 2010
Includes recent evidence reviews on how food marketing affects children’s
Food-related attitudes
Beliefs
Eating behaviors
Health
Who
From the World Health Organization

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