WHO urges governments to promote healthy food in public facilities
Public settings, such as schools, childcare centers, nursing homes, hospitals and correctional facilities and all other institutions of public institutions, can play a key role in ensuring people are provided with healthy food and helping prevent the 8 million annual deaths currently caused by unhealthy dieters.
A new WHO Action framework for developing and implementing public food procurement and service policies for a healthy diet aims to increase the availability of healthy food through setting nutrition criteria for food served and sold in public settings. The action framework also aims to reduce preventable diseases and deaths from high consumption of…