Nutrition: Toward a Policy Based on Supportive Environments

In their 2017 recommendations on nutrition, experts from the High Council for Public Health advocate prioritizing action on supportive environments rather than an individual-focused approach. They emphasize that this is the most effective way to combat health inequalities. This is followed by a series of recommendations, including: taxing foods of low nutritional quality and subsidizing foods of high nutritional quality; improving institutional food services, including school cafeterias, through the use of binding regulations; regulating advertising for foods of low nutritional quality on television, radio, and in print media, as well as online and on social media, to protect children; improving urban environments to make physical activity more accessible; taking action starting in childhood, when behaviors are formed and because social health inequalities are established during this period; make organic food more accessible so that the less fortunate can have access to food with lower levels of toxic residues and pesticides, etc. A comprehensive and ambitious roadmap for the years ahead.

Author(s): Lang Thierry, Hercberg Serge

Publishing year: 2018

Pages: 35-38

Health in Action, 2018, n° 444, p. 35-38

In relation to

Our latest news

news

2026 “Sexual Behavior” Survey (ERAS) for men who have sex with men

news

Hervé Maisonneuve has been appointed scientific integrity officer for a...

Visuel illustratif

news

Public Health France 2026 Barometer: Launch of the Survey