World Health Organization adopts global health and diet recommendations: reduce sugars, processed foods, soft drinks and junk food advertising

Email this article to a friend

Printable Version

Geneva: The World Health Organization has accomplished the nearly impossible and officially adopted a global health strategy that advises the countries of the world to teach their citizens how to modify their diets to avoid chronic disease and experience enhanced health. The primary recommendations by the WHO report? Reduce the consumption of refined sugars (added sugars), processed foods, and salt, restrict the marketing of unhealthy foods to children, and enhance product labeling and health education so that people can make better informed decisions about foods.

In other words, the WHO has adopted the Consumer Wellness Research Center approach to health! Well, not quite: the CWRC recommends eating no refined sugars at all, no refined white flour, no aspartame, no hydrogenated oils, and so on. But many of the stated strategies are similar. No wonder the U.S. sugar industry couldn't stand the recommendations: if people follow the WHO advice and make healthier dietary choices, they'll be eating and drinking far less of the disease-promoting junk food and soft drinks that are heavily promoted by U.S. companies. Remember: the United States is the world's largest exporter of chronic disease, and the U.S. sugar industry bitterly fought the WHO recommendations. Big Sugar, you see, doesn't really care about whether people get healthy or not, they just want to sell more sugar!

Astoundingly, the sugar industry in the U.S. continues to claim there's "no evidence whatsoever" that sugar consumption is related to diseases like obesity or diabetes. It reminds me of the old Big Tobacco denials, and it's a great example of just how twisted the ethics can become at profit-seeking corporations: they'll say anything to make a buck, regardless of the pain and suffering their products cause throughout the world.

Kudos to the World Health Organizations for adopting a much-needed set of health guidelines that, if followed, would greatly enhance the health of the global population. Unfortunately, it's not a binding document, and you can be that it will be swept under the rug in the United States, where junk food corporations hold tremendous politicay sway. In their minds, they can minimize any "damage" to their profits by making sure the public never hears about the WHO recommendations. Soft drink companies, in particular, depend on an ignorant population that's kept in the dark about the health consequences of consuming these disease-promoting beverages. Much the same is true for fast food companies who keep on selling disease-promoting fried foods, high-fat foods and high glycemic index foods to an unwary public that continues to experience skyrocketing rates of cancer, diabetes, heart disease and mental disorders.

Share

Free registration is required to read the rest of this article...
Enter your email address to continue:  
Your email privacy is 100% protected by NaturalNews. We do not sell, rent or share emails.


Get articles like this delivered to you FREE in our popular email newsletter

Related CounterThink Cartoons:

Related Articles: • Where's the health in health care reform? • The Honest Food Guide empowers consumers with independent information about foods and health • The inside scoop: Natural Health Products Expo West industry event	Take Action: Support NaturalNews.com Email this article to a friend Share this article on: NewsVine | digg | del.icio.us Permalink to this article: http://www.NaturalNews.com/001084_health_food_foods.html Reprinting this article: Non-commercial use OK, cite NaturalNews.com with clickable link. Embed article link: (copy HTML code below): <a href = "http://www.NaturalNews.com/001084_health_food_foods.html">World Health Organization adopts global health and diet recommendations: reduce sugars, processed foods, soft drinks and junk food advertising</a>