Five fields for action identified by the Platform members are: Consumer information, including labelling; Education; Physical activity promotion; Marketing and advertising; Composition of foods, availability of healthy food options and portion sizes.
This may justify actions to reduce the size, availability and appeal of food portion, package and tableware sizes that are large in absolute terms.
Fresh ingredients reflect seasonal availability; and dishes are sensibly portioned, complexly flavored and cooked with care.
Informing people about this effect has little or no impact hence the need for policy options that reduce the size, availability and appeal of large portions, packages and tableware," she said.
The school environment directly influences quantity and quality of food availability, with increasing portion sizes and more energy-dense foods available to children and adolescents in the school environment.
This suggests that policies and practices that successfully reduce the size, availability and appeal of larger-sized portions, packages, individual units and tableware can contribute to meaningful reductions in the quantities of food (including non-alcoholic beverages) people select and consume in the immediate and short term.
Conclusions Overall, this review provides the most conclusive evidence to date that acting to reduce the size, availability and appeal of larger-sized portions, packages and tableware has potential to reduce the quantities of food that people select and consume by meaningful amounts.
Examples of the latter may include, for example, reducing the availability of larger portion, package and tableware sizes; placement of larger portion sizes further away from purchasers; or demarcation of single portion sizes in packaging through wrapping or a visual cue.
While an individual is able to make some choices (e.g., brand preference), the caloric content, portion size, convenience, cost, availability, and marketing of products, among many other variables, are all beyond their control.
