This Action Plan establishes guidelines for the national follow-up of the United Nations (UN) Decade Action on Nutrition and contributes to the follow-up of international obligations in the field of nutrition, including the World Health Organization's Global action plan for the prevention and control of NCDs 2013-2020. It also aims at contributing to the achievement of UN sustainable goals, in particular Zero Hunger, Good Health and Well-Being, and Responsible Consumption and Production. The Plan contains the following Chapters: I. Why an action plan for better diets?; II. Target groups and goals; III. Status and challenges; IV. Measures; V. Follow-up with economic and administrative consequences. The Plan's overarching objective is to contribute to a healthy and varied diet in the entire population, regardless of gender, age, geography, socio-economic status, cultural background, functional ability, religion and creed. Further, the Plan has the following sectorial goals: 1. Facilitate changes in the diet in line with the health authorities' guidelines; 2. Reduce social differences in diets; 3. Strengthen the knowledge of, and make visible connections between, diet and physical and mental health; 4. Promote the development of healthy and safe foods and strive for a health and environmentally friendly practice in the production and consumption of food; 5. Strengthen and quality-assure work with food, meal, and nutrition in the health, care and social services. The measures to achieve these goals are divided in four groups of measures: 1. Meal joy and healthy diets; 2. Good and easy choices; 3. Communication and knowledge; 4. Food, meals and nutrition in health and care services; 5. Research, development, and innovation. Some measures included in group 1. Meal joy and healthy diets are: promoting good eating habits in kindergartens; promoting good meal arrangements in school and after-school cares; promoting better food care for the elderly; Including food and meals in measures to promote social community and prevent loneliness; promoting healthy options at the workplace and other eating places; etc. Some measures included in group 2. Good and easy choices are: establishing a comprehensive and long-term cooperation with the food industry; reducing the intake of saturated fats and sugars; continuing and further developing the Keyhole as a labeling scheme for healthy products; follow up the work related to marketing of food and beverages to children; promoting the consumption of vegetables and other plant-based foods; promoting the consumption of fish and seafood; promoting food production, product development, and innovation; ensuring a sustainable and environmentally friendly practice; etc. Some measures included in group 3. Communication and knowledge are: developing tools and resources for the subject "food and health" in primary school and contribute to better competence among those who teach the subject; providing training programs for employees in child care institutions, care centers, and possibly foster parents; introducing self-catering and preparing a cookbook to support healthier food in prisons; etc. Some measures included in group 4. Food, meals and nutrition in health and care services are: promoting competence on food, meals and nutrition in health and care services; implementing national guidelines on infant nutrition; promoting, supporting and protecting breastfeeding; following up the nutrition work in services acmes at people with disabilities; safeguarding nutritional considerations in health and care services within mental health and alcohol and drugs abuse. Some measures included in group 5. Research, development, and innovation are: following and describing the development in the Norwegian diet; developing and following up on diet, meal, and health indicators; promoting research on food, nutrition, and health; gaining increased knowledge and making visible the connection between mental health and diets; having a system for monitoring changes in nutrient content, volume, and sales over time.
Noruega · 2017-03-07