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Obesity in children: Paediatricians bat for nutrient-specific labels on packaged food -Payal Gwalani

-Hindustan Times

The Non-Communicable Diseases Prevention Academy (NCDPA), a subspecialty of Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP), has written to Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)

Mumbai Paediatricians from around the country are batting for inclusion of nutrient-specific warning labels on packaged foods as a way to counter the obesity pandemic among Indian children.

They recommend easy-to-interpret symbols (similar to a green dot for vegetarian food and red dot for non-vegetarian) to indicate whether a food item is healthy for children in terms of sugar, salt, caffeine and saturated fats levels, and calorific value.

The Non-Communicable Diseases Prevention Academy (NCDPA), a subspecialty of Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP), has written to Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) to consider necessitating nutrient specific warning on labels of all packaged food.

In their communication, the NCDPA expressed concern about the harms of current food labelling practices on the health of children. The prevalence of obesity and associated non-communicable diseases like diabetes and hypertension among Indian children, which was already shockingly high, is on a rise in the post-pandemic period, warns IAP which is a body consisting of more than 35,000 paediatricians from around the country.

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