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NEWS Roundup
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4 March 2024
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World Obesity Day - 4 March 2024
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World Obesity Federation: Let’s Talk About Obesity and... Obesity is a complex interaction of different factors, for different people, in different countries and cultures. One universal strategy for every person is never going to be the solution. That’s why this year’s World Obesity Day is opening up a wider conversation. We want to leverage the power of World Obesity Day to start cross-cutting conversations. Looking at health, youth and the world around us to see how we can address obesity together. This World Obesity Day, let's share knowledge, advocate together, and see obesity from a different perspective.
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| Webinar: Let's Talk Obesity & the Right to Healthy School Food Environments |
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Youth Across the Caribbean Are Calling for the Urgent Implementation of a Comprehensive Suite of Healthy Food Policies in the Caribbean
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Fiona Zhang and Genesia Pemberton, Youth Health Advocates at Lake Health and Wellbeing, are proud to announce the launch of their “Healthy Start Healthy Heart” campaign. This initiative aims to raise awareness about the critical need for policies that create a healthy food environment for young people, enabling them to make informed and healthy choices from an early age.
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Deborah Chen - Let’s Talk Obesity and Need for Healthy School Food Environments
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Jamaica Gleaner: This World Obesity Day, observed annually on March 4, the Heart Foundation of Jamaica is imploring Jamaicans to join in the conversation and let’s talk about obesity and the need for healthy school food environments.
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| Civil Society Organisations Recognize World Obesity Day and Continue To Amplify the Call for Healthier Food Environments! |
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Heart Foundation Marks World Obesity Day
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Jamaica Gleaner: This year, the focus will be on the need for action and the role everyone can play in reducing obesity by increasing the awareness of obesity’s impacts on health and finances, globally and Jamaica in particular.
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| Photo: Ian Allen
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| Image: The Lancet
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Worldwide Trends in Underweight and Obesity From 1990 to 2022
The Caribbean Continues To Have Some of the Highest Rates of Obesity in the World! |
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The Lancet: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories.
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WHO Calls for Private Sector Accountability Amid Massive Obesity Increase
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| Photo: Health Policy Watch website |
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Health Policy Watch: The private sector “must be held accountable for the health impacts of their products”, warned the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) amid news that obesity has quadrupled in children and more than doubled in adults since 1990.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was speaking ahead of the release of a huge global obesity study involving over 220 million people from more than 190 countries published in The Lancet on Friday.
“Getting back on track to meet the global targets for curbing obesity will take the work of governments and communities, supported by evidence-based policies from WHO and national public health agencies,” added Tedros. |
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| Photo: MBI/Alamy
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Ultra-Processed Food Linked to 32 Harmful Effects to Health, Review Finds
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The Guardian (UK): Ultra-processed food (UPF) is directly linked to 32 harmful effects to health, including a higher risk of heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes, adverse mental health and early death, according to the world’s largest review of its kind.
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| The Caribbean Versus the Climate Crisis:
Challenges and Solutions for Informing Health Systems and Improving Health Outcomes in the Region |
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Webinar: In Case You Missed it
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In support of the See the Truth campaign, HCC and partners hosted a webinar on 22 February 2024. The webinar, brought together civil society advocates, academics and policymakers to share experiences of weak governance and industry interference, and discussed strategies to protect NCD policymaking processes from interference.
See the Truth complements HCC’s broader advocacy to support the implementation of healthy food policies across the region and builds on previous campaigns such as Make it Make Sense, People Over Profit and Octagonal Warning Labels Help Consumers Act on Facts.
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| See the Truth Campaign Video and Graphics |
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| Image: Steps Infographic
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Guyana Indifferent to FOPWL
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Stabroek News: Five years after the Caribbean first began deliberating the adoption of what is known as a Front of Package Label (FOPL) aimed at sensitizing consumers to what has become “a growing endemic of non-communicable diseases” that can derive from being unmindful of the dangers associated with mostly food and beverage consumption, the Caribbean, including Guyana, still appears unprepared to address the issue frontally.
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St. Lucia Ministry of Health and Wellness: The results of the STEPS survey of noncommunicable disease (NCD) risk factors in Saint Lucia are now avaialble. See the infographic here.
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| Image: Steps Infographic
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- PODCAST: Prioritising NCD care in humanitarian responses
- Lived experience shaping the way ahead in NCD Alliance
- Reflecting on 2023 and Charting the Course for 2024
- Personal NCD stories
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Open Letters and Statements
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| World Obesity Day October 2016: Ending Childhood Obesity |
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| October 13, 2016 |
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| HCC Celebrates World Obesity Day with the launch of our infographic on the sugar content of popular sugar sweetened beverages in the Caribbean. The consumption of sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) is one of the major contributors to the obesity epidemic among adults and children. In the Caribbean on average data shows that 1 in 3 children is overweight or obese. |
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Vaping Among Adolescents and Youth in the Caribbean: Situation, Policy Responses, and Recommended Actions
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Our Health, Our Right – A Rights-Based Childhood Obesity Prevention Agenda for the Caribbean
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NCD Prevention and Control in the Caribbean – Essential Considerations for Equity-Based and Rights-Based Approaches, Policy brief.
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