Our Global Network is dedicated to funding research and health education programmes into the links between food, nutrition, physical activity, body fatness and cancer risk.
People1
Aim
Act as members of households and communities and as citizens, not just as customers and consumers, in achieving healthy ways of life
Recommendations
- Support organisations and initiatives whose purpose is to improve public and personal health and to prevent chronic diseases including cancer
- Develop policies and set examples within the household and community to enable healthy eating, sustained physical activity, and weight control
- Ensure that personal, household, family, and community good health and protection against disease are priorities when making major decisions
- Use independent nutrition guides, food labels, and other reliable information when planning household supplies and purchasing foods and drinks
1. As members of networks, communities, clubs, families, and households, not just as individuals.
For more details see Chaper 8 of the Policy Report, which can be accessed in our resource downloads section.