Healthy Eating and Active Lifestyles
Best Practices in Public Health
Overweight and obesity affects over half of all men and women in OECD countries. This has significant health and economic consequences. As part of OECD’s work on promoting best practices in public health, this report outlines policy recommendations on how to address two leading overweight risk factors: poor diet and lack of physical activity. Policy recommendations are drawn from a review of high-priority interventions implemented in OECD and EU27 countries.
Overweight and its threat to public health
This chapter describes changes in lifestyle behaviours and their impact on key risk factors associated with weight gain – i.e. unhealthy diets and physical inactivity. Trends in overweight and obesity and their subsequent impact on health and economic outcomes are also discussed. The chapter concludes with a summary of policies taken at both the national and international level to address this major public health issue.
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