{"id":85131,"date":"2026-08-03T08:27:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85131"},"modified":"2026-08-03T08:27:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:27:54","slug":"ultra-processed-food-companies-hindering-health-drives-by-suing-countries-says-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/ultra-processed-food-companies-hindering-health-drives-by-suing-countries-says-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-Processed Food Companies Hindering Health Drives By Suing Countries, Says WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Guardian:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s biggest ultra-processed food corporations are hindering global efforts to tackle the obesity crisis by suing governments that try to promote healthier diets, the head of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/world-health-organization\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">World Health Organization<\/a>\u00a0has said.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 1 billion people worldwide are living with obesity, and unhealthy diets are one of the main drivers of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer. Ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption is soaring and now makes up half the average diet in many countries, including the UK, the US and Australia. Of the lawsuits filed by companies where the plaintiff could be identified, 38% were brought by eight parent corporations: Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Mondel\u0113z, Kellogg\u2019s, Danone, Ferrero, Xignux and Heartland\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/food\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Food<\/a>\u00a0Products Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Guardian: The world\u2019s biggest ultra-processed food corporations are hindering global efforts to tackle the obesity crisis by suing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85132,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85131\/revisions\/85132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}