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Olivier de Schutter recommends cracking down on junk food advertising, regulating foods high in fats and sugar, and tax unhealthy products.

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Olivier de Schutter, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, has issued five recommendations for fixing diets and food systems:

De Schutter explains:

One in seven people globally are undernourished, and many more suffer from the 'hidden hunger' of micronutrient deficiency, while 1.3 billion are overweight or obese.

Faced with this public health crisis, we continue to prescribe medical remedies: nutrition pills and early-life nutrition strategies for those lacking in calories; slimming pills, lifestyle advice and calorie counting for the overweight.

But we must tackle the systemic problems that generate poor nutrition in all its forms.

Governments, he said:

have often been indifferent to what kind of calories are on offer, at what price, to whom they are accessible, and how they are marketed.... We have deferred to food companies the responsibility for ensuring that a good nutritional balance emerges.

...heavy processing thrives in our global food system, and is a win-win for multinational agri-food companies ... but for the people, it is a lose-lose.... In better-off countries, the poorest population groups are most affected because foods high in fats, sugar, and salt are often cheaper than healthy diets as a result of misguided subsidies whose health impacts have been wholly ignored.

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The UN Special Rapporteur Offers 5 Ways to Fix Unhealthy Diets

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