Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health

Overview

The overall goal of the Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health is to promote and protect health by guiding the development of an enabling environment for sustainable actions at individual, community, national and global levels that, when taken together, will lead to reduced disease and death rates related to unhealthy diet and physical inactivity. These actions support the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and have immense potential for public health gains worldwide.

The global strategy main objectives: 

• Reduce risk factors for chronic diseases that stem from unhealthy diets and physical inactivity through public health actions.
• Increase awareness and understanding of the influences of diet and physical activity on health and the positive impact of preventive interventions. 
• Develop, strengthen and implement global, regional, national policies and action plans to improve diets and increase physical activity that are sustainable, comprehensive and actively engage all sectors.
• Monitor science and promote research on diet and physical activity.