To stay on track, we can break down these health goals into smaller and more realistic steps - steps that are easier to measure and track weekly or monthly so that we can see our progress and feel motivated.įor instance, we could set a smaller goal to develop a healthy eating habit such as drinking water instead of sweetened drinks during lunch. Exercising regularly could take years while eating healthier and making better food choices are hard to measure.īefore we achieve these goals, we may feel discouraged and give up.
When it comes to health, we often have fitness and food goals like losing weight, exercising regularly, eating healthier or making better food choices. Often we write them down to make these goals more concrete and also as reminders to ourselves to keep moving towards our goals.
They are expressions of our inner desires or what we want from our lives. Helping countries to promote healthy nutrition as an effective measure to reduce NCDs is one of the priorities of the European Programme of Work 2020–2025, signed by all Member States of the WHO European Region, which promotes united action for better health while ensuring well-being for all at all ages.We have goals for our relationships, careers, finance and also health.
supporting monitoring initiatives of children’s eating habits, anthropometric measurements and food environments to monitor policy impacts. facilitating access to healthy and nutritious food in schools, other public institutions – through implementation of healthy public food procurement and service policies – and in under-served communities. introducing fiscal incentives such as implementing a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages. incentivizing reformulation of foods high in sugar, fat and salt. implementing WHO-recommended labelling rules for nutrition producers. regulating marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages to children. Policy-makers can promote healthy growth and development among children by: Healthy nutrition during childhood is a fundamental priority for the future of the Region. The research drew on data from 23 countries participating in the 2015–2017 4th round of COSI, the largest initiative of its kind globally. To contribute to healthy childhood growth and development in the European Region, the NCD Office created a factsheet to summarize the paper on the dietary habits of children aged 6–9 years. Establishing good nutrition habits early in life can substantially decrease risks of child obesity and overweight, and can lead to better health for years to come,” said Dr Carina Ferreira-Borges, ad interim Head of the WHO European Office for Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD Office) and Programme Manager, Alcohol, Illicit Drugs and Prison Health. “A healthy diet is especially important for primary school-aged children. Poor diets, overweight and obesity are major risk factors for cardiovascular diseases and cancer, the 2 main killers in the WHO European Region. Healthy nutrition is one of the pillars of noncommunicable disease (NCD) prevention. “A healthy diet includes high consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables, daily breakfast consumption and discouraging routine consumption of nutrient-poor foods that are high in sugars, saturated fats, trans fats and salt,” said Dr Kremlin Wickramasinghe, ad interim Programme Manager, Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, WHO/Europe. Overall, the WHO findings from this study highlight that action is urgently needed to promote healthy eating habits among children in all the countries of the European Region, especially to increase daily consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables. 
However, there are significant differences between eating habits from country to country. 10.3% of children consume sweet snacks and 9.4% soft drinks on a daily basis. Children’s eating habitsĪccording to the findings, which present the dietary habits of 132 489 children, 78.8% of children eat breakfast, 42.5% consume fresh fruit every day and 22.6% consume vegetables every day. This recommendation is based on the results of round 4 of the WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI), which were recently published in an article in the journal Nutrients and in a WHO/Europe factsheet which summarizes the data. World Obesity Day is on 4 March, and on this occasion WHO/Europe raises the urgent need for promoting healthy eating habits among children.
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