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WHO lays out strategies to cut sugar, global obesity
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Posted on Sat, May. 22, 2004 WHO lays out strategies to cut sugar, global obesity BY EMMA ROSS Associated Press GENEVA — In a decision seen as a triumph of public health over the sugar industry, the world's health ministers tentatively agreed Friday on a landmark plan to fight a growing trend of obesity and diseases caused by poor diet and exercise habits. The nonbinding agreement, which the governing body of the World Health Organization is expected to formally approve today, is a blueprint for countries trying to develop policies that make it easier for people to eat healthier and exercise more. It offers a comprehensive menu of options for heading off a worldwide explosion in obesity and other diseases linked to diet and physical activity, including diabetes, heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, malnutrition and tooth decay. The plan's recommendation to limit sugar intake became the focus of controversy early on as health advocates feared that objections by sugar-producing countries would derail it. "It is a victory for public health that this went through without the sugar industry destroying it," said Dr. Kaare Norum, a Norwegian obesity expert who advised WHO on the development of the plan. Brazil, a major sugar producer, said agreement was reached after language was inserted to ensure the plan could not be interpreted as "a tool for any kind of trade distorting measures such as subsidies." The global strategy sets out recommendations on sugar, fat and salt in processed food; food marketing to children; and better nutrition labeling. It also gives strategies to make healthy choices easier at school and work, such as subsidizing fruits and vegetables in cafeterias. NR http://www.pat-acceptance.org/kookrant.html http://www.pat-acceptance.org/kookrant2.html If I catch you busting into a mass and vilifying a church, the last thing you'll hear in your entire life, will be the ratatatatat of an automatic. - --Steve Chaney to Mark Ira Kaufman Message-ID: Young Mr. Chaney, the man who has told me that he wants to murder me and sodomize women in my family, has said, repeatedly, that advocates for choice had vandalized churches. - --Mark Ira Kaufman Message-ID: she probably has to have her picture taken by satellite because no normal camera can fit all that whale blubber into one picture. - --Steve Chaney Message-ID: Excessively fat women look ugly. It is impractical to try and have sex when she's 100lbs overweight and the weight is all fat - but most women ain't that big. - --Steve Chaney Message-ID: You of course do know what a lot of Asian women prefer, right? Besides, after ****ing a cute asian chick, experience tells me it isn't all that except that she looks good on your arm. In bed it ain't much at all. If the lights go out, any guy whose hormones are more fixed on performance than looks, is going to go to sleep right there and then. - --Steve Chaney Message-ID: Clarice and Allisson were well beyond a BMI of 25 in their pictures where they were called cows. - --Steve Chaney Message-ID: If Dutton knocked on Steve's door and Steve shot him in the face, I would really not care. - --Crash Street Kidd about Steve Chaney Message-ID: Stephen A Chaney admits to sodomizing his daughter if he forges me now. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: N/A iQA/AwUBQK+RujL3IlvsWvnjEQIU8gCeKGBMByH5VmA4PwcEV661d6 heDiYAnjm6 jJKeObvMidOjQ07+EqD5b3iu =gY6F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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