Over 140 organizations confront UN demanding recognition junk food and beverage industries kill 36 million a year

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(NaturalNews) The United Nations Summit on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is being held in September in New York — and 140 international non-governmental agencies (NGOs) and public health organizations are using the meeting to confront the UN. Their concern? They want the UN to come clean about the organization’s current approach to working with the food and beverage industries. Representatives of the group, who have published their concerns in the Online First version of The Lancet, stated it is time for the UN to understand many products and marketing strategies promoting such things as soft drinks, cigarettes, alcohol and junk foods contribute substantially to the development of NCDs that kill 36 million people every year.

“There are clear conflicts for the corporations that contribute to and profit from the sales of alcoholic beverages; foods with high fat, salt, and sugar contents; and tobacco products — all of which are important causes of NCDs,” explained some of the NGO leaders in The Lancet correspondence.

For example, they pointed out in a media statement that tobacco and alcohol use and poor diet from empty calorie junk foods contribute significantly to NCDs such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases, and cancer. Bottom line: these food and beverage products may be responsible for 60 percent of all deaths worldwide.

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[RichardtheRaelian]

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