“I’m not the one to hand out a one-sentence piece of dietary advice, but I can recommend serious dietary guidelines by governments as a major tool for achieving the sustainable development goals. That’s going to be a lot of work, because they don’t have them right now, or they don’t publicise them, or they’re not very accurate,” he said.
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Steps that countries might take could include the introduction of punitive taxes on unhealthy foods, he added. “In certain cases you’d want to go to more than recommendations – you’d actually want to go down the regulatory route, or as we did with cigarettes a massive tax environment to put heavy taxation on dangerous products.”