Integrating nutrition and physical activity promotion: Exploring new ‘double duty’ options
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15.06.20
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With growing evidence linking obesity and COVID-related deaths, associations between access to healthy diets, physical activity and mental health are more important than ever. A new research paper responds to recent calls to review efforts to create enabling environments for ‘double-duty actions.’ In their potential for preventing or reducing several forms of malnutrition simultaneously by targeting shared drivers, double-duty actions hold great promise.
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