WHO urges schools worldwide to promote healthy eating for children - EnviroNews - latest environment news, climate change, renewable energy
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WHO urges schools worldwide to promote healthy eating for children - EnviroNews - latest environment news, climate change, renewable energy
Healthy food in schools can help children develop healthy dietary habits for life, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), which released a new global guideline on evidence-based policies and interventions to create healthy school food environments. For the first time, WHO is advising countries to adopt a whole-school approach that ensures food and beverages provided in schools and available throughout the broader school food environme…
It is estimated that 466 million children receive school meals worldwide, but WHO warns that information on the nutritional quality of food served to them is “limited”.
CDMX.- The World Health Organization (WHO) urged Member States to strengthen and accelerate public policies to ensure that food and beverages offered in schools are healthy, safe and nutritious, and presented a new evidence-based global guideline on school food environments. The call comes in a context of increasing child overweight and obesity on a global scale, while problems of malnutrition persist, a scenario that the body places as a “doubl…
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