Public Health in Practice: Nutrition policy in Latin America | UNC Gillings Carolina Public Health magazine

Lindsey Smith Taillie, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Vitamin

Chile’s legislation didn’t simply handle warning labels. Over a three-year interval, it banned advertising and marketing directed at kids, banned commercials for junk meals and sugary drinks on tv from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., and banned gross sales of those merchandise in faculties.

“It went to an entire new stage, altering the atmosphere that youngsters are raised in with regard to meals,” Taillie says. “Our analysis confirmed that this coverage works to cut back consumption of merchandise which have the labels.”

“It went to an entire new stage, altering the atmosphere that youngsters are raised in with regard to meals.”

Lindsey Smith Taillie, PhD

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