The Fight Against Childhoood Obesity: What Can Europe Learn from Latin American Experiences?

This essay engages with the problem of children’s overnutrition, which is currently at the centre of a global debate. Having conducted a survey of the innovative measures enacted in several Latin American countries concerning nutritional labels on the front packaging of food items, we call for greater attention from researchers and institutional decision-makers based in Europe to learn from strategies developed in Latin America. Better knowledge of concrete experiences from the region, could be helpful in restricting the consumption of so-called junk food by children in general.