United Nations investigator said on Monday.
In a statement issued on the opening of the annual summit of the World Health Organisation (WHO), United Nations investigator, Belgian professor Olivier de Schutter calls for a global effort to tackle obesity:
“Unhealthy diets are now a greater threat to global health than tobacco. Just as the world came together to regulate the risks of tobacco, a bold framework convention on adequate diets must now be agreed,” he said.
…..In 2005, a U.N. convention on tobacco control aimed at reducing deaths and health problems caused by the product went into force after long negotiations under the umbrella of the WHO.
In a report to the rights council in 2012, de Schutter said a similar accord on food should include taxing unhealthy products, regulating food high in saturated fats, salt and sugar, and “cracking down on junk food advertising.”
Read more at Unhealthy diets greater threat to health than tobacco, says UN expert | Fox News.