LET’S DO BETTER FOR THE CHILDREN! – A Healthy Caribbean Coalition Campaign While marketing like financial donations, sponsorships, scholarships and donations of branded items by ultra-processed product/food companies may seem helpful on the surface, they pose three main problems: They promote unhealthy choices to impressionable children They build relationships and a financial dependency between these […]
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«Hacia el nuevo Derecho Alimentario» analiza críticamente el sistema alimentario actual y su fracaso en garantizar el derecho a la alimentación y los derechos de la Naturaleza. En un contexto donde el hambre, la malnutrición y las enfermedades relacionadas con la mala alimentación son problemas crecientes, este libro propone una nueva visión de la alimentación, integrando las regulaciones existentes y futuras, para construir un derecho alimentario que asegure el bienestar de la población y la salud de los ecosistemas.
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Los alimentos que consumimos llegan a nuestras mesas luego de un proceso, que va desde la decisión de qué sembrar y cómo hacerlo; el nivel de procesamiento que se le aplicarán, la decisión de adquirirlos o no al costo en que son vendidos y cómo lo preparamos para consumirlos. Este engranaje es lo que se
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OPEN LETTER The Honourable Mia Amor Mottley, Q.C., M.P. Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs and Investment And The Honourable Ryan R. Straughn, M.P. Minister in the Ministry of Finance Ministry of Finance, Economic Affairs and Investment 15 March, 2024 Dear The Honourable Mia Amor Mottley and The Honourable Ryan R. Straughn, The
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Webinar: Changing Systems, Healthier Lives: The Caribbean Road to UN High Level Meeting on NCDs and Mental Health Date: Thursday 13 March, 2025 | 10am to 11:30am AST In commemoration of World Obesity Day under the theme “Changing Systems, Healthier Lives”, the HCC will host a webinar, “Changing Systems, Healthier Lives: The Caribbean Road to
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March 4 is recognised as World Obesity Day, with the theme “Changing Systems: Healthier Lives.” This theme is a significant call to action for governments, healthcare institutions, and communities to confront one of our time’s most critical health challenges. Obesity has emerged as a global epidemic, and the Caribbean region is not exempt from its
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With fourteen (14) delegates, the Caribbean was well represented at the recent NCD Alliance Global Forum held in Kigali, Rwanda from 12-15 February 2025. The meeting was the largest yet, bringing together over 700 NCD advocates from across the globe united and moblising around the upcoming 4th UN High Level Meeting on NCDs to be
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Almost half of all cancer cases can be prevented by improving individual behaviours and implementing supporting policies. This means there are specific actions we can take to help avoid cancer and there are health policies that can help create environments that make those individual choices easier and more achievable! Backed by research and written by
“Sports washed” away: How Big Soda companies uses sport to sell sugary drinks Op ed by Maisha Hutton, Executive Director, HCC. During the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games this past summer, the Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC) joined organisations across the globe in the “Kick Big Soda Out!” campaign which called on the International Olympic
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Feeding Communities in the Eye of the Storm: Food Systems, Nutrition and Natural Disasters Webinar 5 December 2024 | 11am AST As climate-related events worsen, the relationship between climate, food, nutrition and health systems becomes increasingly apparent. There is an urgent need for multisectoral action to strengthen regional food systems to safeguard the health and
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