Nestlé has been criticised for adding sugar and honey to infant milk and cereal products sold in many poorer countries. The Swiss food giant controls 20% of the baby-food market, valued at nearly US$70 billion.
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<p>Unnecessary sugar contributes to obesity, which has major health effects such as diabetes, high blood pressure and other cardiovascular diseases, cancer and joint problems among others.</p>
<p>The rate of overweight children in South Africa is 13%, twice the global average of 6.1%.</p>
<p>These extra sugars, fats and salt are harmful to our health throughout our lifetime, but especially to babies as they are still building their bodies.</p>
<p>Children eat relatively small amounts of food at this stage. To ensure healthy nutrition, the food they eat must be high in nutrients.</p>
<h2>How do multinationals influence health policies?</h2>
<p>Companies commonly influence public health through lobbying and party donations. This gives politicians and political parties an incentive to align decisions with commercial agendas.</p>
<p>Low- and middle-income countries often have to address potential trade-offs: potential economic growth from an expanding commercial base and potential harms from the same commercial forces.</p>
<p>Research into how South African food companies, particularly large transnationals, go about shaping public health policy in their favour found 107 examples of food industry practices designed to influence public health policy.</p>
<p>In many cases companies promise financial support in areas such as funding research. In 2023 a South African food security research centre attached to a university signed a memorandum of understanding with Nestlé signalling their intent to “forge a transformative partnership” to shape “the future of food and nutrition research and education” and transform “Africa’s food systems”.</p>
<h2>What happens in high-income countries?</h2>
<p>Most high-income countries have </p></div>
<p>Another is the Swiss Nutrition Policy, which sets out clear guidelines on healthy eating and advertising aimed at children.</p>
<p>The global food system is coming under scrutiny not just for health reasons but for the humane treatment of animals, genetically engineered foods, and social and environmental justice.</p>
<h2>What should governments in developing countries be doing?</h2>
<p>South Africa already has limits on salt content but we need limits on added sugar and oil.</p>
<p>Taxing baby foods as we do sugary beverages is another way of discouraging these harmful additions.</p>
<p>We need to make sure that consumers are aware of what’s in their food by having large front-of-package warning labels. Take yogurt: many people assume it is healthy, but there is lots of added sugar in many brands.</p>
<p>Consumers should be calling for front-of-pack labels that the Department of Health has proposed so that parents can easily identify unhealthy foods.</p>
<p><span>Susan Goldstein, Associate Professor in the SAMRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science – PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), <em>University of the Witwatersrand</em></span></p>
<p>This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.</p>
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