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Protecting children from harmful food marketing


Professor Amandine Garde highlights the growing recognition of unhealthy food marketing as a major children’s rights issue, and what can and should be done to address it

Ten years after the adoption of the World Health Organization (WHO) Recommendations on the marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages to children, children around the world remain exposed to high levels of unhealthy food marketing. This is worrying, as food marketing has been directly associated with unhealthy diets, malnutrition and child obesity. Children who are overweight or obese are more likely to be overweight or obese adults, which increases their risk of at least 12 different types of cancer.

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Posted by on Feb 15 2020. Filed under Health, Kids Page, News From Roots, News Worldwide. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

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