Seminar no. 1211
19 April 2023 Time 12.30 – 13.30 hrs.
Speaker: ดร.สุชีรา บรรลือสินธุ์ (องค์การอนามัยโลก WHO)
Marketing restrictions on unhealthy foods and beverages to children Childhood overweight and obesity are increasing global public health problems. In 2016, one in five children aged 5-19 years are obese globally. Prevalence of overweight and obesity among Thai children increased almost 2 times in the past 20 years. A major driver of the increases in obesity is current food environments, which feature the increasing availability, accessibility, affordability and marketing of foods that are high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) and are usually highly processed. Evidence is clearly shown that food marketing to which children are exposed alters their food preferences, choice, purchases and intake. WHO has urged member states to implement a comprehensive regulation on marketing restrictions on unhealthy foods and beverages to children. As of May 2022, a total of 60 countries have adopted policies that restrict marketing of food and nonalcoholic beverages to children. Twenty of these countries have mandatory marketing restriction policies and another 18 mandatory policies in the school setting. Comprehensive policy approaches have the potential to be sufficiently broad to restrict all forms of food marketing to which children are exposed, including digital marketing.
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