Traduction de «Energy-dense food » (Anglais → Français) :

29. Welcomes EU initiatives such as the setting-up of the "EU mini-chefs" website and the European Day for Healthy Food and Cooking held on 8 November 2007; recommends the organisation of information campaigns to improve awareness about the relationship between energy-dense products and the equivalent in time of physical activity needed to burn off their calories;

29. Welcomes EU initiatives such as the setting-up of the ‘EU mini-chefs’ website and the European Day for Healthy Food and Cooking held on 8 November 2007; recommends the organisation of information campaigns to improve awareness about the relationship between energy-dense products and the equivalent in time of physical activity needed to burn off their calories;

The most commonly discussed approach is actually not a tax on fat content per se, but rather a tax on foods deemed to be nutritionally undesirable, particularly energy-dense nutrition-poor foods.

For example, a tax on carbonated beverages containing high-fructose corn syrup that doesn't apply to uncarbonated lemonade containing cane sugar may lead consumers to substitute one energy-dense, nutrition-poor food for another.

Furthermore, economic pressures may already be pushing lower-income Canadians to some of the same energy-dense nutrition-poor foods that one may wish to target with fat taxes.

Identifying diabetes as a public health challenge in Europe and encouraging networking and the exchange of information between Member States with a view to promoting best practices, to enhancing the co-ordination of health promotion and prevention policies and programmes for the whole population and high-risk groups and to reducing inequalities and optimising healthcare resources; Facilitating and supporting European diabetes research in basic and clinical science and ensuring the wide dissemination of the results of this research across Europe; Examining and strengthening the comparability of diabetes epidemiological evidence by considering the establishment of standardised outputs for monitoring, surveillance and reporting of diabetes m ...[+++]ortality, morbidity and risk factor data across Member States; Reporting on Member States' actions in order to emphasise health determinants, promote healthy lifestyles, national diabetes plans and prevention measures, on the basis of information provided by Member States, assessing the extent to which the proposed measures are working effectively, and considering the need for further action; Continuing the work on the development of a comprehensive approach to health determinants at European level, including a coherent and comprehensive nutrition and physical activity policy, and addressing the impact on public health of the promotion, marketing and presentation, in particular to children, of energy dense foods and sugar-sweetened drinks; Building on the work of the EU Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health and encouraging the development and implementation of national diabetes prevention programmes and measures; Taking the health determinants and risk factors of diabetes into account across EU policies.