Gro Harlem Brundtland

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

[20th Century has been called] the century of extremes, [...] in which human vices reached unfathomable depths. [She notes that it has been] a century of great progress [and in some places of] unprecedented economic growth. [At the same time, however, poor urban areas face a bleak future of] overcrowding and a disease pattern linked to poverty and an unhealthy environment.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

Tobacco is a communicated disease – communicated through marketing.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

The global toll of mental illness and neurological disorders is staggering.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

We have an opportunity to launch a massive effort against infectious diseases.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland