Wednesday, February 5, 2014

What could go wrong? UN report urges food regulation: "...ban all sales of unhealthy foods and soft drinks that can lead to obesity on all public premises..."

Obesity epidemic: UN report urges food regulation to tackle global issue




“There is no hope unless governments accept that they have to intervene and set new criteria. Publicly funded social and traditional media campaigns are useless when faced with one of the biggest, most powerfully industries globally,” he told Fiona Fleck on the bulletin of the WHO.

He said that an initial step should be to ban all sales of unhealthy foods and soft drinks that can lead to obesity on all public premises such as hospitals and schools.

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