Comprehensive mandatory policies are needed to fully protect all children from unhealthy food marketing

PLoS Med. 2023 Sep 25;20(9):e1004291. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004291. eCollection 2023 Sep.

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) have released a new guideline, "Policies to protect children from the harmful impact of food marketing" [1] which recommends the development of comprehensive laws to reduce children's exposure to unhealthy food marketing. This new guideline extends previous recommendations [2] to limit the adverse effects of unhealthy food marketing on the health of the world's children. We consider here whether these new recommendations go far enough.

MeSH terms

  • Beverages
  • Child
  • Food Industry
  • Food*
  • Humans
  • Marketing*
  • World Health Organization

Grants and funding

The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.