GENEVA, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday advocated governments to promote healthy food in public facilities, and to increase the availability of healthy food through setting nutrition criteria for food served and sold in public settings.
WHO said in a statement issued Tuesday that public settings, such as schools, childcare centers, nursing homes, hospitals and correctional facilities and all other canteens of public institutions, can play a key role in ensuring people are provided with healthy food and helping prevent the 8 million annual deaths currently caused by unhealthy diets.
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