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Gatell goes against soft drinks and junk food: ‘We are going to confront without conflict of interest’

During the health conference this Thursday, the undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell, He explained that this six-year term will combat the poor food environment of Mexicans, among which is the junk food and the refreshments.

Accompanied by the doctor Ruy López Ridaura, General Director of the National Center for Preventive Programs and Disease Control and a nutritional epidemiologist, López-Gatell confessed that said food environment caused deaths from COVID-19.

Both specialists agreed that the high number of chronic diseases, such as obesity and the diabetesThey are mainly due to soft drinks and junk food, which has been described as a public health problem.

We have said that one of our highest priorities in the field of health is to face these serious epidemics. Obesity and diabetes were classified as national health emergencies

– Hugo López-Gatell

Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion

When showing the data corresponding to COVID-19 deaths related to the consumption of sugary drinksLópez Ridaura specified that seven percent of the more than 40 thousand deaths correspond to this poor diet.

For his part, Hugo López-Gatell confirmed that there is already an intention to tackle obesity and diabetes, diseases that expanded in the 1980s with the consumption of ultra-processed products.

In fact, the undersecretary added that poor nutrition will be combated by removing the conflicts of interest that exist between the government and government industries.

“It is a public health problem that requires attention and that today we are resolved to deal with decisively by removing the well-known conflicts of interest that deprived the action ”, he affirmed.

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