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Influencing food environments for healthy diets

Year of publication 2016

Pages 154 p.

Author Nutrition and Food Systems Division

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-109518-8

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract)

More and more people are becoming overweight and obese, with increasing diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Behind the global shifts in malnutrition and NCDs are unhealthy diets and a sedentary lifestyle. Our food systems and the food environments are not delivering on the diets needed to promote and sustain optimum health. This publication focuses on Influencing food environments for healthy diets and offers suggestions on suitable interventions to address that environment. Countr ies will find the information useful as they develop policies and programmes to make healthy diets an easier choice for their citizens.

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