Comprehensive mandatory policies are needed to fully protect all children from unhealthy food marketing.
editorial · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 37747882.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004291 and PMC identifier 10575484.
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Abstract
The World Health Organization (WHO) have released a new guideline, "Policies to protect children from the harmful impact of food marketing" [1] which recommends the development of comprehensive laws to reduce children's exposure to unhealthy food marketing. This new guideline extends previous recommendations [2] to limit the adverse effects of unhealthy food marketing on the health of the world's children. We consider here whether these new recommendations go far enough.
Medical subject headings
- Food
- Marketing