With more than 200 million adults and 14 million children with overweight, the EU needs to face a real societal problem. Lifestyle factors, including diet, eating habits, levels of physical activity, but also genetic factors cause overweight and obesity.

The European Commission’s Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health is supporting a number of actions that can help to contain or reverse current obesity trends.

The European Commission makes available a video clip to fight against obesity (Streaming video .wmv - 16Mb).

For more information on this issue please visit the section on nutrition of the Health-EU Portal.