Obesity is a significant public health challenge
Healthcare systems are under increasing pressure from rising numbers of obese children and adults. For the foreseeable future these rates are only set to rise, leading to one of the most significant public health challenges we face today. Obesity, often driven by poor nutritional choices, increases the risk of a range of serious health conditions, including digestive cancers and liver disease. Healthy balanced diets and lifestyles can help prevent chronic digestive diseases.
Nutrition and Chronic Digestive Diseases: An Action Plan for Europe
Our report details of how, with the right mix of public health interventions, improved nutrition can be delivered across Europe. An unprecedented opportunity exists to develop food systems as a common thread between policy frameworks aiming for improved health and environmental sustainability. Establishing clear, scientific targets to guide food system transformation is an important step in realising this opportunity.
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Useful resources
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Related Organisations
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References
Useful resources
- WHO EU Action Plan on Childhood Obesity 2014-2020
- WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health
- WHO Recommendations on Marketing Food to Children
- WHO Obesity: Preventing and Managing the Epidemic
- British Nutrition Foundation Healthy Living Guide
- European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPN) Guiedlines
Related Organisations
European organisations
- The World Obesity Federation (EU)
- ESPEN - European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (EU)
National organisations
- Austrian Obesity Association (Austria)
- Belgium Association for the Study of Obesity (Belgium)
- Bulgarian Association for Study of Obesity and Related Diseases (Bulgaria)
- Dansk Selskab for Adipositasforskning (DSAF) (Denmark)
- Finnish Association for the Study of Obesity (Finland)
- Association Francaise d'Etudes et de Recherches sur l'obesite (France)
- Deutsche Adipositas Gesellschaft, German Association for the Study of Obesity (Germany)
- Hellenic Medical Association for Obesity (Greece)
- Hungarian Society for the Study of Obesity (Hungary)
- Iceland Society for Obesity Research and Prevention (Iceland)
- The Association for the Study of Obesity in Ireland (Ireland)
- Societa Italiana dell' Obesita (Italy)
- Netherlands Association for the Study of Obesity (Netherlands)
- Norwegian Association for the Study of Obesity (Norway)
- Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo da Obesidade (Portugal)
- The British Nutrition Foundation (UK)
- The National Obesity Forum (UK)
- The Association for the Study of Obesity (UK)
References
World Health Organisation Europe. Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC).2014
Eurostat. Obesity rate by body mass index (BMI). http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&language=en&pcode=sdg_02_10&plugin=1. (2016)
T J Key.Fruit and vegetables and cancer risk. British Journal of Cancer. 104 (1), p6-11 (2011)
NHS.More evidence that fibre cuts bowel cancer risk. www.nhs.uk/news/cancer/more-evidence-that-fibre-cuts-bowel-cancer-risk/. (2011)
World Health Organization. Cancer linked with poor nutrition.Available: http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/disease-prevention/nutrition/news/news/2011/02/cancer-linked-with-poor-nutrition.(2011)
Stephanie Fay. Salt: Shaking up the link with stomach cancer. www.wcrf.org/dietandcancer/recommendations/limit-red-processed-meat. (2016)
National Cancer Institute. Obesity and Cancer. www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/obesity/obesity-fact-sheet. (2017)
World Cancer Research Fund. Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Colorectal Cancer. Continuous Update Project Keeping the science current. p13.(2011)
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