A maintain healthy dietary practices. Effective actions by policy-makers include:
- Coordinating trade, food system and agricultural policies with the protection and promotion of public health;
- Encouraging consumers’ demand for healthy foods and meals; and
- Promoting healthy nutrition across the life course.
The WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health was adopted in 2004 by the World Health Assembly. It called on governments, WHO, international partners, the private sector and civil society to take action at global, regional and local levels to support healthy diets and physical activity. WHO Member States have also agreed to reduce the global population’s intake of salt by 30% by 2025; and to halt the rise in diabetes and obesity in adults and adolescents as well as in childhood overweight by 2025.
