Background
Healthy diets help to prevent
malnutrition in all its forms as well as a range of noncommunicable diseases
(NCDs) and conditions. The WHO Department of Nutrition and Food Safety coordinates
the work to develop a series of guidelines on healthy diets to provide
evidence-informed nutrition guidance. Building on the guidelines on saturated
fatty acid and trans-fatty
acid intake and total fat intake, WHO is planning to develop a guideline on
consumption of tropical oils such as palm oil and coconut oil. It is important
to review existing evidence on the health effects of tropical oil consumption
in a systematic manner and issue WHO guidance through the current WHO guideline
development process. The guideline will respond to the need for guidance
particularly in the context of identifying healthy alternatives to industrially
produced trans fat.
To provide
evidence-informed guidance on this topic, WHO has brought together experts from
all over the globe, with a wide range of relevant expertise.
List of members
Ayed Amr
Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Technology, University of Jordan, Jordan
Majken Jensen
Professor, Section of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Duo Li
Chief Professor of Nutrition, Institute of Nutrition and Health, Qingdao University; Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Zhejiang University, China
Ye Peng
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Food and Nutrition Science, Macau University of Science and Technology, China, Macao SAR
Murray Skeaff
Emeritus Professor, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Bruno Fokas Sunguya
Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Social Sciences, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, United Republic of Tanzania
Christopher Fregene
Principal Regulatory Officer, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Nigeria
Pulani Lanerolle
Chair Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Oonagh Markey
Senior Lecturer in Nutritional Sciences, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dan Ramdath
Associate Director at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Adjunct Professor at the University of Guelph, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Qi Sun
Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States of America
Geert Van Poppel
Independent consultant, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
Methodological expert
Nancy Santesso
Associate Professor, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, and Deputy Director, Cochrane Canada, Health Sciences Centre, McMaster University, Canada
Publications
Saturated fatty acid and trans-fatty acid intake for adults and children: WHO guideline...
Total fat intake for the prevention of unhealthy weight gain in adults and children: WHO guideline
This guideline provides updated, evidence-informed guidance on the percentage of total fat in the diet to reduce the risk of unhealthy weight gain. This...
Saturated fatty acid and trans-fatty acid intake for adults and children: WHO guideline
This guideline provides updated, evidence-informed guidance on the intake of saturated fatty acids and trans-fatty acids to reduce the risk of diet-related...