Kids are not supposed to be tricked by unhealthy foods.
Unhealthy foods should not be sold in schools and children's playground, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), Friday (21 / 1), in a series of suggestions aimed at encouraging healthy eating and reduce obesity among children.
The statement did not include the ban on advertisements for food with saturated fat content, high sugar or salt aimed at children, but instead asked for a number of countries to "consider the most effective approach to reduce the" marketing of such foods, as cited by AFP.
Suggestions are not binding will be presented at a high level meeting on the prevention and monitoring of the disease is not contagious during the UN General Assembly in New York in September, WHO officials said.
"The location where children gather should be free from all forms of marketing of foods high in saturated fat, acid, trans-fat, high sugar or salt," the UN health agency said.
"Such settings include, but are not limited to, a kindergarten, school, school yard and education centers, pre-school, playground, family and children's clinics and child health services and places for cultural activities and sports held in all these places, "he said.
As many as 43 million pre-school children overweight or obese, according to WHO data.
"Children all over the world fixated on the marketing of foods that contain lots of fat, sugar or salt, which increase the potential of young people stricken with a degenerative disease in their lives," he said.
Six of 10 deaths each year caused by heart disease, cancer, diabetes and chronic lung disease, the WHO warned. UN health agency declared a common factor for the four main diseases are the foods with poor nutrition.
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