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

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