27 children aged 3-6 at low risk and 22 at high risk for obesity were studied. Increase in soda intake was associated with an increased change in waist circumference, whereas milk intake was associated with a reduced waist circumference.
CEFU har undersøgt de 12-16 åriges tryghed og trivsel på Frederiksberg. Blandt drengene er 58 pct medlem af en idrætsforening, 20 pct løbetræner og 19 pct går til fitness. Blandt pigerne er tallene 47, 27 og 12 pct. 13 procent går ikke til noget.
In June 2006 Nordic ministers signed the Nordic Plan of Action on better health and quality of life through diet and physical activity. It’s a plan with mesurable and binding targets for 2011 and 2021.
On page 18 in the Nordic Actionplan the following statement on regulating marketing of unhealthy foods to children can be found:
“The advertising and marketing of less healthy foods affect
children’s and youth’s consumption of and attitudes towards
foods and should therefore be restricted. The Nordic
countries will hold the EU Commission to its ultimatum
to industry on stopping all advertising and marketing of
unhealthy food directed at children, and will together demand
EU legislation if the current practices are not brought
to an end through self-regulation”.
Find the Nordic Plan of Action on better health and quality of life through diet and physical activity here.
Professor of Nutrition and Food Studies Marion Nestle from Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University gave an excellent key note lecture at the 9’th Nordic Nutrition Conference on Tuesday June 3rd 2008.
See her talk on YouTube: PART 1 – PART 2 – PART 3
or Listen to an MP3 file with her talk (36 MB)
Abstract:
In today’s era of plentiful food production, dietary advice is generally designed to help the public prevent obesity (eatless, move more), obtain the full complement of essential nutrients (eat a variety of fruits, vegetables, and whole grainfoods), and avoid foods of low nutrient density (don’t eat too much junk food). Increasingly, the public also demandsfood choices that address food miles, carbon footprints, environmental impact, and other aspects of sustainable foodproduction. Together, these concerns constitute a foods systems approach to dietary advice, one that recognizes theinextricable links among agriculture, food, nutrition, and health. From an international perspective, a shift to sustainablediets would have profound economic effects on the producers of food commodities, food products, and meals producedoutside the home. Such a shift also would affect food prices, international food trade, and relationships among the foodindustry, government agencies, and food and nutrition professionals. In free-market economies, any large-scale changein dietary choices has consequences for food producers and is, therefore, political. Much of what can be observed inagricultural production and food product development and marketing can be understood as an attempt to maintain salesin the midst of a food social movement. This movement is fragmented among many smaller movements, all of whichhave as goals diets that are healthier for people and for the planet. In this sense, promotion of sustainable diets is anexample of democracy in action and well worth supporting in all its various manifestations.
For more information on Marion Nestle see www.foodpolitics.com or her blog at www.whattoeatbook.com. Or view her Google lecture on What to eat.
Looney Tunes characters wil appear this summer on healthy products including more than 100 items across 30 categories. And Warner Bros. will no longer license its Looney Tunes characters for use on the packaging of unhealthy foods.
On March 15th 2008 The world federation of consumer organisations and the International Obesity Task Force launched their proposals to drastically restrict the scope and scale of junk food marketing to children across the globe.
Adoption of the Code would be major step in helping to protect children. There are currently 177 million children threatened by obesity related diseases. The WHO predicts 2.3 billion people over the age of 15 will be overweight by 2015.
Consumers International (CI) also launched a new Junk Food Generation campaign website: www.junkfoodgeneration.org/
Download CI’s Obesity Figures fact sheet
Download CI’s Marketing Spend fact sheet
Download a the actual Code (10 page document)
The International Code on Marketing of Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages to Children demands:
- A ban on radio or TV adverts promoting unhealthy food between 6am and 9pm
- No marketing of unhealthy food using new media (such as websites, social networking sites and text messaging)
- No promotion of unhealthy food in schools
- No inclusion of free gifts, toys or collectible items which appeal to children to promote unhealthy foods
- No use of celebrities, cartoon characters or competitions to market unhealthy food.
On June 28th 2007 the nordic ministers for fisheries, agriculture, forestry and foodstuffs agreed on calling for a joint and unfortunately voluntary ethical code to limit the marketing of unhealthy food to children and young people.
The wording is inserted below:
nordic ministers for fisheries, agriculture, forestry and foodstuffs
Nordic Council of Ministers
Approved 28 June 2007
Declaration concerning the marketing and accessibility of food for children and young people
The Nordic Council of Ministers for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Agriculture, Food and Forestry (MR-FJLS) would like to improve the dietary habits of children and young people in the Nordic Region.
The ministers have discussed restrictions on the marketing of unhealthy foodstuffs and identified a number of positive measures designed to promote a healthy diet. This discussion followed on the 2006 decision by MR-FJLS to draw up a Nordic action plan for better health and quality of life through food and physical activity.
The ministers call upon the Nordic countries to draft a joint voluntary ethical code to limit the marketing of unhealthy cood to children and young people. The code would complement the WHO’s recommendations governing the marketing of unhealthy food and non-alcoholic beverages to children.
The ministers also call upon the food industry to assume greater responsibility for children and young people’s diets, for example through limiting marketing aimed at children and by scrapping volume discounts on unhealthy foodstuffs. Work has already commenced on defining joint Nordic criteria for food labelling, and can be used as a starting point for the work
of defining what constitute healthy/unhealthy foodstuffs.
The ministers call upon the Nordic countries to work more closely together on, and exchange experiences about, mapping the volume and type of marketing of food to children. This will provide the best possible basis for future work on the issue and ensure that progress is made.
The Nordic countries should also consider introducing financial incentives. The ministers recommend a targeted information campaign to improve access to healthy food and to promote its consumption in places frequented by children and young people.
To maximise impact, the ministers seek to ensure that joint Nordic initiatives and policies on children and young people’s eating habits are also adopted by international bodies such as the European Union and the World Health Organisation.
MR-FJLS considers the improvement of children and young people’s eating habits to be a top priority, one which, to be successful, will require multi-sectoral co-operation within the structures of the Nordic Council of Ministers
A two-year Australian project assessed the cost-effectiveness of 13 different interventions to prevent childhood obesity. It costs no money and saves most DALYs. Published in 2006.
Information was collected on the movements of approximately 100,000 randomly selected people over a six-month period. People are creatures of habit, spending most of their time going to — and remaining at — a few key locations, such as work and home.
Dr. Bae and collegues in Korean did a systematic litterature review on 11 articles including six case-control studies, one nested case-control study and four cohort studies.