Healthier food
A healthier world needs a healthier food supply.
Strategies for healthier food
Why healthier food?
Unhealthy food is a leading contributor to heart disease and premature death—especially artificial trans fat and too much salt. Governments can and should take action to protect people against health threats in the food supply.
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are protected from toxic trans fat today thanks to policy action. Here’s how we helped make it happen
Policy works. Practical, evidence-based food policies can make the healthy choice the easy choice for everyone.
How we’re making food healthier
We support countries to take on heart disease and other chronic diseases by reducing salt and eliminating trans fat: the two deadliest dietary risk factors. Together with our work to control blood pressure, these strategies can save 100 million lives by 2050.
Eliminating deadly artificial trans fat and cutting salt intake to less than 2g/day could prevent nearly 2.4 million deaths from heart disease each year.
Salt reduction
We support countries with evidence-based sodium reduction policy, with a focus on packaged foods; meals and snacks served in schools, hospitals and other government facilities; and low-sodium salts.
The lower-sodium salt revolution
Replacing regular salt with potassium-enriched, lower-sodium salt could be the next big public health victory.
Trans fat elimination
We partnered with WHO to co-create the REPLACE initiative, calling on all countries to ban trans fat and providing step-by-step guidance on how to do it.
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Sodium reduction framework
Our recommendations for building a comprehensive salt reduction program, for governments and their partners
Global nutrition database
A centralized platform of nutrition data on packaged foods, for researchers, policy advocates and decision-makers
Healthy public food procurement and service resource library
Resources and tools to create nutritional standards for food served and sold in government facilities, including schools and hospitals
How we work
We support countries to develop and implement evidence-based food policies, from research to development to adoption and implementation. Our experts work with WHO and other partners to develop tools that can guide countries as they make their food supply healthier.
Where we work: Healthier food
