ABSTRACT
As for the access to essential medicines, nutrition issues expose the basic conflict between the powerful profit-making industry – here the food producers and distributors – and the objectives of global public health, based mainly on prevention and public health education. This chapter focuses on baby food, then on the marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages to children, on child obesity and on interventions to reduce salt and sugar consumption. A working group of the Protein Advisory Group (PAG) of the UN System is set up in Bogota to review the conditions of infant nutrition, in utero and during the first months of life, in various regions of the Third World. In spite of all threats and pressures, WHO has maintained its position on salt and sugar, although the nutrition industry continues its campaigns to discredit WHO's findings and recommendations.
