Overview

Sports and well being go hand in hand. A nutritious diet performs an important half in serving to folks get pleasure from sports activities and wholesome lives. At the identical time, sports activities occasions could be highly effective alternatives for selling wholesome consuming. Sports mega-events particularly have excessive visibility, reaching billions of followers worldwide.

In 2022, as a part of a novel world partnership to advertise well being, the World Health Organization (WHO) collaborated with the Ministry of Public Health, Qatar and the Fédération internationale de soccer affiliation (FIFA) to champion a more healthy meals supply in stadia throughout FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 TM . The collaboration ensured that greater than 30% of the menu objects served at this momentous occasion had a wholesome dietary profile in keeping with WHO requirements.

This motion information builds on this profitable expertise of collaboration and legates to future sport occasions a robust mannequin to struggle in opposition to obese and weight problems and diet-related noncommunicable illness.

The doc goals to encourage motion in the direction of bettering inhabitants well being and well-being, and to redefine the position that sports activities occasions can have on this endeavour. It builds on WHO technical experience in supporting public meals procurement and repair insurance policies for a nutritious diet and nudges to advertise wholesome consuming in different public settings.