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Childhood obesity

Children enjoy their choco-flavored sugar-coated donut.

Philippine food environment is failing children

Children’s lived experiences reveal factors that promote overweight and obesity

Children flock to buy pichi-pichi, a snack made from grated cassava, grated coconut, and sugar to taste.

Children’s experience of the Philippines' food environment

Realities of children's lives and how policies can improve their food environments and diets

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Report (PDF, 25 MB)

Cheap snacks readily available in neighborhood sari-sari stores are often bought by children or parents as quick treats

03 November 2022

Curbing childhood obesity in the Philippines

Time to junk the junk (food)

A girl buying snacks at a store in her neighborhood

Everybody Needs to Act to Curb Obesity

DOH and development partners call for a whole-of-society approach to reduce obesity in the Philippines

A child buying a donut from a small store in her neighborhood

Landscape Analysis: Childhood Overweight and Obesity

The extent of childhood overweight and obesity and priority actions for prevention

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English (PDF, 2 MB)

A boy holding a plastic bag contaning a drink

The Market for Highly Processed Food and Drink

Assessing trends in sales of highly processed food and drinks in the Philippines

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English (PDF, 5 MB)

A girl using a smartphone

Unhealthy food marketing to children in the Philippines

A study on marketing of food and non-alcoholic beverages in social media

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English (PDF, 1 MB)