ICMR-NIN-led ‘Let’s Fix Our Food’ Consortium Releases Policy Priorities to Promote Healthier Diets for Children and Adolescents

The ICMR-NIN-led 'Let's Fix Our Food' (LFOF) Consortium has released a policy document titled 'Priority Policy Actions to Promote Healthier Diets and Food Environments for Children and Adolescents in India'. This document provides evidence-based recommendations to improve dietary behaviours and create healthier food environments for children and adolescents, aiming to prevent diet-related non-communicable diseases. Key recommendations include promoting healthy school food environments, nutrition literacy, front-of-pack nutrition labelling, regulating unhealthy food marketing, and taxing foods high in fat, salt, and sugar (HFSS). The initiative involves multiple national and international partners, with NITI Aayog endorsing the need for such multisectoral policy action.