Originally published May 24 2004
World Health Organization adopts global health and diet recommendations:
reduce sugars, processed foods, soft drinks and junk food advertising
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
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.
GENEVA (AP) --- The world's health leaders formally adopted a global
strategy to combat bad diet and exercise habits Saturday, part of a wave
of determination to fight diseases such as obesity, diabetes and cancer.
The voluntary plan offers a blueprint for countries trying to develop
policies that make it easier for people to eat healthier food and
exercise more.
The agreement sets out recommendations such as the reduction of sugar,
fat and salt in processed food; the control of food marketing to
children and of health claims on packaging; and more comprehensive
nutrition labeling and health education.
Regardless of whether countries end up using the unprecedented plan,
experts say the pace of obesity's spread across the planet, the
predictions of what it will cost to deal with the consequences, and the
food industry's lingering fears of a successful lawsuit by fat people
are all forces certain to motivate changes.
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