Nutrition & Physical Activity

CPME Chair of Working Group on Healthy Living: Dr Ina KELLY (IE)
CPME Secretariat: Mr Markus KUJAWA

The health impacts of unhealthy diets and a lack of physical activity is changing disease patterns and contributing to the rapid increase of non-communicable diseases, posing new challenges to doctors and healthcare systems. CPME’s focus is on preventing disease by promoting healthier choices. We call on policy-makers to follow the evidence-base for creating a regulatory framework which ensures the best possible nutrition information and food labelling to consumers and restricts the marketing of unhealthy food products in particular to children. Also taxation of unhealthy products and adequate school education on healthy living are effective government interventions to improve the population health. Since 2016, CPME has been a member of the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) Stakeholder Forum.

Featured Policies

Feb 2022 CPME 2022/002 FINAL

CPME Response to the Public Consultation on the Revision of EU Legislation on Food Information to Consumers

Food businesses should be subject to the same rules on front-of-pack nutritional labelling across the whole EU. Simplified and easy to understand nutrition information would help people to make healthier food choices.

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Nov 2020 CPME 2020/008 FINAL

CPME Policy on Physical Activity

More than half of all Europeans are now not active enough to meet the recommended levels for regular physical activity. All doctors must actively promote physical activity in their interactions with patients.

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Apr 2019 CPME 2019/025 FINAL

CPME Policy on Healthy Living

CPME sees action in primary prevention as essential to ensure that people are able to live as healthy lives as possible, which will in turn reduce the incidence of noncommunicable diseases and the resulting premature deaths.

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