ABSTRACT
This construction of nutritional food practices as building upon scientific knowledge, aimed at preventing lifestyle diseases, and placing the responsibility on the individual, can also be recognised today in public Danish initiatives on healthy food practices. In April 2009, The Danish Commission for Prevention launched a report with recommendations for national initiatives to improve public health. The report recommends a large number of prevention initiatives in relation to especially diet, alcohol, smoking and exercise. These recommendations are grouped into two main types: socially targeted prevention offers such as school lunches, and individually targeted regulations such as taxes and prohibitions. In the area of food and diet, there are twice as many individually targeted regulation recommendations as prevention offers. This tendency to individualise the responsibility for a nutritionally healthy diet in Denmark was also reflected in the empirical results of a recent comparative European study.
