Sentences with phrase «undermined child health»

These four companies have been aggressively marketing infant formula for decades, and have actively undermined child health.

Leave campaigners said Brexit would free the Government to make its own laws, so we repeat our call for it to step up and do the right thing: protect children from harmful products and protect parents from the misleading marketing that is doing so much to undermine child health.

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Children's health experts fear a future trade deal with the US could undermine UK efforts to reduce sugar consumption and import American levels of diet - related diseases alongside their produce.

According to psychologists, these three maternal parenting styles can undermine children's psychological health.

«The House bill would undermine the effort to provide kids with more nutritious food and would be a major step backwards for the health of American children, just at the time childhood obesity rates are finally starting to level off,» he said.

In spite of its critical importance as the cornerstone of child health and survival, aggressive and inappropriate marketing of breast - milk substitutes, and other food products that compete with breastfeeding, continues to mislead parents and undermine efforts by Member States to protect and support children's rights to health and ensure sound objective information.

Press release 22 September 2015 Update 25 February 2016: Research shows the messages people take from the Brazilian «your child is what you eat» campaign An advertising campaign criticised by health experts around the world for undermining breastfeeding was launched in...

In consideration of global public health recommendations, including WHA Resolution 63.23, the WHA Global Strategy of Infant and Young Child feeding and the global impact of exports from the Union to third countries, the labelling and marketing of processed baby foods should make it clear that these products are not adequate for use by infants of less than 6 months of age and should not undermine the 6 month exclusive breastfeeding recommendation; Considers therefore that the labelling and marketing should be revised in line with WHA recommendations for foods for infants and young children;

A mother produces optimum nourishment for her child, using her body's stores of other nutrients if necessary, and experts fear that babies will have their health undermined if the campaign drives some mothers to use formula.

But we first have to realize that we have a problem; that we are undermining children's health by denying them the thousands of ingredients in breastmilk that help build an optimal body / brain, replacing with a few dozen ingredients in the wrong proportions and from non-human sources which then populate the baby's gut (the seat of the immune system) with pathogenic bacteria, undermining health for a lifetime.

Where these products differ from most others is that such advertising can damage the short and long - term health of our children by undermining breastfeeding and misleading parents who bottle feed about what milk to use.

This can distort parents» perceptions and undermine their confidence in breastfeeding, with the result that far too many children miss out on its many benefits,» says Dr Francesco Branca, Director of WHO's Department of Nutrition for Health and Development.

That the CPS forms partnerships with these companies even while they are actively engaged in undermining breastfeeding does not further the society's goal of improving child health.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, White House threatened to veto the spending bill if it contains the school meal waiver, saying that such a bill would be «a major step backwards for the health of American children by undermining the effort to provide kids with more nutritious food.»

It is essential for the child's emotional and psychological health that each parent behaves respectfully toward each other and does not try to interfere with or undermine the child's relationship with the other parent.

The World Health Assembly calls for an end to promotional claims on foods for infants and young children because they generally mislead parents and undermine independent information from health workers, mother support groups and expert sources such as NHS ChHealth Assembly calls for an end to promotional claims on foods for infants and young children because they generally mislead parents and undermine independent information from health workers, mother support groups and expert sources such as NHS Chhealth workers, mother support groups and expert sources such as NHS Choices.

«Excessive workload and attacks on teachers» working conditions are having a profoundly negative effect on women teachers» mental and physical health and wellbeing and undermining the quality of education for children and young people.

Barriers to include; a limited awareness among parents of their child's weight and the associated health risks; a belief that a healthy lifestyle would be difficult; other pressures on parents that undermine healthy choices; and a lack of opportunity to make the changes towards a better lifestyle.

We also know how inactivity affects more than just a child's physical health because it undermines their mental and emotional wellbeing too.

The union's general secretary, Chris Keates, commented: «Excessive workload and attacks on teachers» working conditions are having a profoundly negative effect on women teachers» mental and physical health and wellbeing and undermining the quality of education for children and young people.

At the national level, Head Start parents, children's advocates, and civil rights leaders feared that a move would undermine Head Start's comprehensive approach that emphasized health care as much as education.

It represents the value of a person's expression against the invisible threat of lead poisoning that undermines health, intelligence, and behavior, particularly in children.

Loss of biodiversity could undermine the right to health under instruments such as Universal Declaration of Human, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as the rights of indigenous peoples to access to the benefits of biodiversity as a resource under instruments such as the Convention Concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries and United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Today, securing our children's future means not only investing in their education and health care, but also investing in a program to reverse the trends that are undermining their future, as I discuss in Chapter 7 of Plan B 2.0 (free to download).

We also believe that it undermines women and children's health and threatens women's reproductive rights.

Two weeks ago, Campaign for a Commercial - Free Childhood (CCFC) sent Facebook a letter signed by 117 public health advocates calling on the company to pull the plug on this app, citing the ways it will undermine children's healthy development.

In a letter written by the Campaign for Commercial - Free Childhood, the coalition detailed ways the new app will undermine children's health and development.

Poverty undermines children's healthy development and has lasting effects on children's physical and social - emotional health.

This session is sponsored by HiMama Harsh immigration policies undermine the safety, health, and overall development of young children in immigrant families, the vast majority of whom are U.S. citizens.

The authors argue, appropriately in my view, for a universal rather than a targeted service, but very low participation rates in socially deprived areas would further undermine the likely impact on child mental health.

She went on to explain that she saw this as a key contributing factor undermining governments» ability to deliver on health, education and employment targets, and to aggravating the escalating incarceration and child removal rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples [11].

The hatred, racism, and discrimination reflected in these events undermine children's mental health, both directly as well as through their impact on adults who are charged with protecting children from harm.

For many new social workers, working with families has become an uphill struggle fraught with missed appointments, hard - to - reach parents, children who can only be seen during school hours, and family members who sometimes undermine the clinician's treatment with their own views about mental health.