26 Amendments of John BOWIS related to 2007/2285(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
- having regard to the conclusions of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council of 5 and 6 December 2007 concerning "Putting an EU strategy on Nutrition, Overweight and Obesity related Health Issues into operation",
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission’s "Green Paper on Urban Mobility" (COM(2007)0551),
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas overweight and obesity and diet related disease are becoming a growing epidemic and are a major contributor to the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in Europe,
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas eating habits established in childhood often endure into adulthood and research has shown that obese children are more likely to become obese adults,
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. considering physical activity and eating a healthy balanced diet to be the primary preventions against overweight and noting with alarm that one in three Europeans do not exercise at all in their free time, while the average European spends over five hours a day sitting down,
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas abdominal obesity is now widely recognised by experts as the most prevalent cause of cardiometabolic abnormalities that increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes,
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the significance of alcohol, with its high calorie intake, and of smoking, both of which distort the appetite for food and drink and carry many established hazards to health, should not be overlooked,
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the White Paper on nutrition as a starting point to stem the rise in obesity and address diet-related chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, including heart disease and stroke, cancer and diabetes, in Europe;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Believes greater attention should be paid to improving the health literacy of citizens to empower them to make effective decisions about their own and their children’s diets;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recognises the substantial role and effectiveness of self-regulation, but notes that regulation is sometimes necessary to deliver substantive and meaningful change across all sectors of industry, particularly when concerning children;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Believes that care should be taken to avoid stigmatising individuals or groups of people who are vulnerable to nutritional, overweight and obesity related health problems by reason of cultural factors, diseases such as diabetes or pathological consumption such as anorexia or bulimia;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Considers that European consumers should have access to the information necessary to allow them to choose the best sources of nutrients needed to achieve and maintain the optimal nutrition intake best suited to their individual lifestyle and health;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Recognises the contribution made by food supplements to enabling consumers to achieve and maintain the optimal nutrition necessary for a healthy lifestyle;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Further, asks Member States, local entities and school authorities to monitor and to improve the quality and nutritional standards of school meals and to review portion sizes; asks for a total ban on the sale of foods and beverages high in fat, salt or sugar in schools; advocates instead making fresh fruit and vegetables available in vending machines; invites the Member States to ensure that morthree hours a week of school timetables are devoted to physical activities and to provide plans for the construction of new public sports facilities;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Considers it essential that every kind of food and beverage sponsorship and advertising for so-called HSSF products (high in sugar, salt, fat) should be banned in schoolin schools should only take place at the request of or with express agreement of school authorities; asks for a voluntary commitment by all sports organisations and teams in order to promote balanced nutrition and physical activity and urges them to avoid sponsorship and promotion of food of poor nutritional value;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls for an EU ban on trans-fatty acids and urges EU Member States to follow good practices in controlling the content of substances in food (e.g. salt content) and calls on the Commission to draw up a programme for exchanging best practice across EU Member States; nevertheless points out that special exemptions should be provided for PDO (protected designation of origin) and PGI (protected geographical indication) and traditional products in order to preserve original recipes;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Invites Member States to promote the distribution ofraise awareness of the benefits associated with a healthy diet and to promote consumer understanding of nutrition, the best sources of nutrients and other beneficial food coumpons forents, such as fresh fruit and vegetables for low-income people, so as to give European consumers, especially the elderly and women with children, to be used only at approved local food markets to guarantee the nutritional quality of productshe choice on how to achieve and maintain the optimal nutrition intake best suited to their individual lifestyle and health;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on industry to review single- serving portion sizes, providing a broader range of smaller portion options; calls on supermarkets, restaurants and fast-food operators to promote the availability of organic products at a reasonable price;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Asks the Commission to accelerate the revision of Council Directive 90/496/ EEC of 24 September 1990 on nutrition labelling for foodstuffs1, taking care that labelling is meaningful and easily understandable to the consumer, including mandatory front-of-pack nutritional labelling using colour coding;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Acknowledges that general practithealthcare professionerals should be made aware of their essential role in the early identification of people at risk of overweight and the fact that they should be the main actors in the fight against the obesity epidemic;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to fund research into the links between obesity and chronic diseases such as cancer and diabetes as epidemiological research needs to identify the factors which are most associated with the increase in obesity prevalence; also calls for studies comparing and evaluating the effectiveness of different interventions;
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Encourages further scientific research and surveillance on abdominal obesity under the EU’s Research Framework Programme;