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PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 20(9) October 2023

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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

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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

https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v20.i09.g001