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Curb Childhood Obesity: Make Warning Labels on Junk Food Compulsory in India
Strong regulations to cap salt, sugar and other harmful ingredients and simple to understand front of package labelling (FOPL) on junk food packets can help.
| 29 May 2021 1:35 AM GMT
NEW DELHI: Strong regulations to cap salt, sugar and other harmful ingredients and simple to understand front of package labelling (FOPL) on junk food packets can help curb the alarming rise in childhood obesity in India, say public health experts and doctors, in a webinar organised by All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Rishikesh on Friday.
Warning labels are critical to help consumers and parents understand how much empty calories and harmful nutrients are being consumed by children.
Obesity is a result of imbalance between calories consumed and calories expended. The only way to control this growing epidemic of obesity is by establishing scientific cut-off limits for harmful ingredients and FOPL on packaged products.
Strong regulations to cap salt, sugar and other harmful ingredients and simple to understand front of package labelling (FOPL) on junk food packets can help curb the alarming rise in childhood obesity in India, say public health experts and .
India News: NEW DELHI: Public health experts and doctors have called for urgent policy intervention to fix scientific limits for salt, sugar, saturated fats and o.