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Obesity and the future of food policies that promote healthy diets
Currently, an unhealthy diet is the largest modifiable factor in ill health and death globally. One of the important contributors to unhealthy diets is the pervasiveness of unhealthy food and drink in our daily food environments. Although efforts to build nutrition skills and education across communities are critical, they will be insufficient without substantial changes to the food environments themselves. Here, I discuss how we can improve our food environments by implementing a comprehensive, multilevel and multisetting approach. This approach needs to encompass the various policy contexts for improving population nutrition, from policy set by national governments to that introduced by local community organizations and food retailers. Clinicians can help implement and set healthy food policies across all our health-care settings, even in the absence of government action. To support a comprehensive suite of effective policies, we need to systematically develop and disseminate the evidence for the feasibility, effectiveness and sustainability of workable policies and to understand their role in the development of a healthier food system.
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Nature reviews endocrinologyVolume
14Pagination
430 - 437Publisher
Nature Publishing GroupLocation
London, Eng.Publisher DOI
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1759-5029eISSN
1759-5037Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2018, Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer NatureUsage metrics
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