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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to begin by congratulating the rapporteur, Mrs Ries, and also the shadow rapporteurs, on the work they have done.
This Commission initiative of drawing up a Green Paper on promoting healthy diets and physical activity, in relation to preventing obesity, has been extremely well received by all of the actors involved in the process. That reflects the many facets of the problem and the need to adopt measures that involve society as a whole. All of this is laid out very effectively in Mrs Ries's report.
In this regard, I would like to point out that the European food industry participates in numerous initiatives and has made specific commitments in different areas of promoting healthy diets and lifestyles, within the framework of the European Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health, launched by the European Commission in 2005.
More and more such efforts are being made to offer consumers an increasingly wide and varied range of products that meet their needs. We must therefore continue to promote the industry's efforts to innovate, something which will ultimately benefit the consumer. This commitment on the part of the responsible European industry is directly linked to the promotion of healthy diets and lifestyles and is demonstrated in certain examples of self-regulation and marketing. Specifically, in Spain, the industry has signed an agreement to this end with the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs, and that agreement is working very well. It involves promoting nutritional education for consumers, healthy diets and, above all, physical activity, which are very important tools in terms of controlling obesity.
I would like to point out, however, that there is no such thing as good foods or bad foods as such. Everything can and must be eaten. There are healthy diets and not so healthy diets. It all depends on variety. We must insist on the need to make less use of cars, remote controls, video games and so forth, and forget the idea that the whole problem can be solved by means of prohibitions and rules.
There is one other thing I would like to point out. We must not demonise overweight people, because if we insist too much on this we will be faced with another problem: anorexia, which is much more serious, if that is possible, particularly for young people."@en1
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