Nutrition in the news
As global nutrition continues to gain prominence in the international sphere, media coverage for important nutrition and health issues is expanding. This section contains a curated list of news articles relevant to the topics covered by ICN2.
Michelle Obama is publicly voicing her opposition to a recent initiative aimed at loosening nutrition standards in American schools. The current standards ensure that school meals deliver essential nutrients to children by limiting calories and salt and integrating more nutritious foods like whole grains, fruits and vegetables. “We know that...
On Monday, 16 June, Pope Francis decried financial and commodities speculation as exploitative practices that compromises the poor’s access to food. "It is urgent that governments throughout the world commit themselves to developing an international framework capable of promoting a market of high impact investments, and thus to combating an...
In the opening address to the 67th World Health Assembly, Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General, voiced her deep concern about the increase worldwide of childhood obesity saying that ‘Our children are getting fatter’. Likewise, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food stressed the fact that the burdens of malnutrition...
