Rutkowski (l), Krygier, Bogacz, Marzec and Association of Food Industry Technicians and Engineers' Bronisław Wesołowski.
A new organisation dedicated to combating unhealthy diets and poor nutrition has been formed in Poland.
The Council for the Promotion of Healthy Food was created with the Association of Food Industry Technicians and Engineers by chairman Adam Bogacz, vice chairmen Prof Krzysztof Krygier and Marek Marzec, and director Wojciech Rutkowski.
Its ambition is to encourage the consumption of nutritionally beneficial foods such as protein, unsaturated fat acids, vitamins, minerals, fibre and antioxidants – as well as emphasising the importance of a calorie-controlled diet. It would not promote products that contained a lot of ingredients that negatively affect the body – for instance sugar, salt and saturated fat acids – and would tackle foods that caused high levels of cholesterol or featured high calorie counts.
Chairman Adam Bogacz told FoodBev that “water, juices, dairy products, fortified and functional drinks will be an important part of the council’s activities”. Bogacz is preparing to release a new book documenting the history of the non-alcoholic drinks industry, written with Polish journalist Beata Drewnowska and published by Warsaw-based Sit Spoż.
In a statement announcing its formation, The Council for the Promotion of Healthy Food said it that “will cooperate with health authorities, media… as well as trade organisations” to address the effect that poor diets, rising levels of stress and “a steady growth of costs related to medical care” are having on Poland’s public health.
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