Ultra-processed food industry regulation for tackling obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases in the Brazilian legislature: many proposals, no enactments.

Aline Brandão Mariath Ana Paula Bortoletto Martins

Published in: Public health nutrition (2020)

Although many bills have been introduced, no regulation of ultra-processed food industry practices has been enacted by the Brazilian legislature by 2020. It is likely that no positive impact on population nutrition in Brazil will be achieved by the end of the United Nation's Decade of Action on Nutrition, in 2025 - especially regarding those goals set by the Brazilian government which were supposed to have been achieved by 2019.

Keyphrases

physical activity
weight loss
high resolution
healthcare
metabolic syndrome
primary care
type diabetes
human health
risk assessment
high fat diet induced
mass spectrometry
skeletal muscle
adipose tissue
drug induced