Food System Harms Global Health
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A quarter of all adult deaths globally more than 12 million every year are due to poor diets.
Malnutrition in all its forms undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, overweight and obesity is by far the biggest cause of ill-health.
Ultra-processed foods implicated in as many as one in seven premature deaths in some countries.
Food system is also sickening our planet generating a third of all greenhouse gas emissions.
In 2014 a new government launched the world’s first tax on sugary drinks.
Sales of these drinks were down 12% , while water sales went up by a similar percentage.
Colombia was the first country in Latin America to introduce a tax on ultra-processed products.
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