This has been the blunt statement by Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food, who also assured that “just as the world agreed to regulate the risks of tobacco, now a regulatory framework on food ”.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the obesity rate in 2014 will reach 50% of the population in countries like the United States , and globally, 65% of the population lives in countries where overweight and obesity are more of a concern than underweight.
For De Schutter, the signs are increasingly worrying but the international community pays "insufficient attention to the worsening epidemic of obesity and unhealthy diets", therefore, he requests the approval of a framework agreement on adequate diets that would tax unhealthy products , regulate foods rich in saturated fat, take important measures against the advertising of "junk food", as well as support local production so that consumers have access to healthier, fresher and more nutritious food.
Finally, the UN expert has assured that “ attempts to promote healthy eating will only work if the food systems that sustain them are fixed ; Governments have focused on increasing the availability of calories, but they have often been indifferent to what kinds of calories, at what price, which ones are made available and how they are marketed ”.
