Climate change, junk food, marketing by tobacco and alcohol companies, ... Children's health is under "immediate threat" everywhere and no country in the world is adequately protecting their future, warns the United Nations (UN). Progress has been made over the past 20 years to protect children's health.
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We don't even know what to call them anymore: fake food, fake foods, junk food archetypes, highly processed foods have invaded the supermarkets. Too sweet, too fatty, full of chemical and synthetic products, they increase the risk of cardiovascular and cerebral diseases, but also of diabetes or heart disease.
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There are eighty of them. Eighty investment funds representing a mere $6.5 trillion. These are investors from KFC, McDonald's or Burger King. They threaten, in an open letter published on January 29th, to pull the rug out from under the table if the junk food giants do not fundamentally revise their copy
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Manufacturers and distributors have no lack of imagination to target children in their communication: organization of birthday parties with avalanches of sweets and candies, labels with animal drawings and fun games, everything is good to incite our children to junk food without limit. Products that are too fatty, too sweet, too salty.
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The purchase of food products in short-distance mode is gradually becoming part of the French people's habits. "Mes Voisins Producteurs", a new marketplace on the Internet, adds a Premium dimension to this eco-responsible consumption model by further reducing the distance between the fork and the fork. Explanations with Jérémie Guilbert
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Food is a major issue of material (feeding people) and immaterial (value, culture, beliefs, representations) civilization. Previously a refuge value adorned with all the benefits, food appears more and more as a misdeed to be mistrusted and discarded. Satisfaction in obtaining food abundance
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For years now, the major food manufacturers have been poisoning us, in defiance of the rules, in defiance of ethics; in defiance of the struggles of NGOs, States and citizens of the world. Nothing seems to help. The large fast food chains of the globalised world continue to use antibiotics and intensive farming,
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