Sentences with phrase «nutrition action group»

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Leading sugar and health expert group Action on Sugar, based at Queen Mary University of London, is calling for colour - coded «traffic light» front of pack (FOP) 1 nutrition labelling to be introduced across all food and drink products after exposing many perceived «healthy» cereal brands who have failed to include the Department of Health endorsed colour - coded labelling -LSB-...]

The district partners with a local non-profit, Research, Education, Action, and Policy (REAP) Food Group, for much of their nutrition education programming.

Of those (and there were many), four main issues were selected for further, immediate action: the issue of competitive foods and a la carte foods; the need for nutrition education; the need to coordinate with other groups in our community seeking similar goals; and the need for Food Services to do a better job communicating with the larger district community.

(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;

Intervention: a community - based worker carrying out 2 activities: 1) 1 home visit to all pregnant women in the third trimester, followed by subsequent monthly home visits to all infants aged 0 — 24 months to support appropriate feeding, infection control, and care - giving; 2) a monthly women's group meeting using participatory learning and action to catalyse individual and community action for maternal and child health and nutrition.

Last week, a group of academics and policy experts specialising in medicine and nutrition announced that they had formed a campaign group, Action on Sugar.

The National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health notes that while a responsive health system is fundamentally important, «action in areas such as education, employment, transport and nutrition is also required if sustainable health gains are to be achieved».166 Accordingly, one of the groupings of Key Result Areas in the National Strategic Framework relates to influencing the health impacts of the non-health sector.