Article
28 Dec 2018
This review article discusses the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) in support of a total diet approach to achieving diet and health goals, especially as they relate to the obesity epidemic. However, some scientists and organizations have identi...
Report
06 Dec 2018
This report explores how local changes to create healthy food and physical activity environments have the power to influence neighboring communities and regional, state, and federal policy.
Fact sheet
03 Dec 2018
Fact sheet on FAO and WHO collaboration in a global initiative to improve people's health - and farmers' income - by boosting the production, supply and consumption of fruit and vegetables.
Report
28 Nov 2018
This report sheds some light on the nature of the challenges that agriculture and food systems are facing now and throughout the 21st century, and provides some insights as to what is at stake and what needs to be done.
Report
12 Nov 2018
This report presents the technical deliberations of the three-day meeting by participants of an Expert Meeting on Population Sodium Strategies for Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases in the South East Asian Region. The meeting focused...
Report
12 Nov 2018
This action plan is intended to significantly reduce the burden of preventable diet-related noncommunicable diseases, obesity and all other forms of malnutrition still prevalent in the WHO European Region. It calls for countries to act, using a whole...
Report
12 Nov 2018
This report highlights progress achieved in the WHO European Region and Member States in implementing the European food and nutrition action plan 2015–2020 and presents selected epidemiological data on the nutritional status of populations througho...
Report
12 Nov 2018
This publication provides information on the marketing of foods and beverages to children and the changes that have occurred in the last decade. It also examines the evolution of marketing methods and reviews some of the recent policy approaches by W...
Report
12 Nov 2018
This review focuses on national and subnational Mediterranean diet (MD) and Nordic diet (ND) interventions and policies in the WHO European Region to support decision-makers in shaping context-specific diet and nutrition policies.
Report
12 Nov 2018
This synthesis summarizes the available evidence concerning the effectiveness of economic instruments (including taxes, price policies and incentives) in containing or reducing food consumption, particularly of foods high in saturated fats and other...
Report
12 Nov 2018
This report presents an up-to-date view of current initiatives to reduce salt intake in European countries, highlighting activities related to the action points of relevant global frameworks.
Report
17 Oct 2018
The main goal of this resolution is to call on Member States to prioritize the prevention of obesity and diabetes and their common risk factors by establishing and/or strengthening policies and programs, integrating them into public and private healt...
