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The adverse health impacts of unhealthy diets are widespread and well known. Diet-related non-communicable diseases, including obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer, exert a very large burden of ill-health among adults in high-income countries, and populations of low- and middle-income countries are increasingly being affected. Marketing of unhealthy and ultra-processed foods is likely to contribute substantially to this growing burden of ill-health, and damaging influences on children’s diets - with the potential for long-term adverse effects on health - are a particular concern. In a Perspective, Francesca Dillman Carpentier and co-authors discuss a newly released WHO guideline on policies aiming to protect children from the harmful impact of food marketing.
Image Credit: Iwona Castiello d'Antonio
Citation: (2023) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 20(9) October 2023. PLoS Med 20(9): ev20.i09. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v20.i09
Published: October 5, 2023
Copyright: © 2023 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The adverse health impacts of unhealthy diets are widespread and well known. Diet-related non-communicable diseases, including obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer, exert a very large burden of ill-health among adults in high-income countries, and populations of low- and middle-income countries are increasingly being affected. Marketing of unhealthy and ultra-processed foods is likely to contribute substantially to this growing burden of ill-health, and damaging influences on children’s diets - with the potential for long-term adverse effects on health - are a particular concern. In a Perspective, Francesca Dillman Carpentier and co-authors discuss a newly released WHO guideline on policies aiming to protect children from the harmful impact of food marketing.
Image Credit: Iwona Castiello d'Antonio