A/HRC/43/44/Add.6 90. As reported by farmers and confirmed by independent researchers, the response to the disease has been mainly to cut existing sick trees or spray massive quantities of pesticides in the affected areas. Financial support should be sufficient and aimed at the most vulnerable actors, while any form of material intervention shall consider the impact on biodiversity, productivity, use of the territory, permanence of small-scale farmers on the land and sustainability. Agro-ecological, organic and natural remedies that keep the olive trees in the ground shall be preferred over chemical interventions and eradication. Comments: There is no scientific evidence to support this claim. It is true, however, that it is urgent to proceed with a rapid reconstruction of the arboreal heritage of Salento, to restore a natural biodiversity: the Salento olive trees, attacked Xylella were almost exclusively represented by a single variety. Adopting a sustainable and pro small-scale farmers’ approach to the growing number of desiccated olive trees should be the priority to deal with the emergency. V. Nutrition A. Obesity 93. In Italy, about 1 in 10 people is obese and more than 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women are overweight one of the. Overweight rates are supposed to increase by a further 5% within ten years. However, the most worrying data is linked to children. Nearly one in three children (31 %) aged 8-9 years was either overweight or obese in 2016, but this rate was down slightly from 35 % in 2008.35 Childhood obesity rates are extremely high (36% for boys and 34% for girls), compared with 23% of boys and 21% of girls, on average, in OECD countries. 94. Large socio-economic disparities exist in obesity. Women with poor education are 3 times more likely to be overweight than more educated women and poorly educated men are 1.3 times more likely to be overweight than more educated ones. 36 B. Unhealthy vs. healthy food Comments: These section (paragraphs 95 till 100) is factually incorrect and should be redrafted or deleted. The Third High Level Meeting on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases took place at the margins of the UN General Assembly on 27 th September 2008. Several Heads of States and Governments participated and agreed on the text of a positive and balanced document (the Political Declaration), adopted by consensus. Italy, together with Uruguay, had the honor to facilitate the process and lead the preparatory work. Such a fundamental UN document does not mention terms or expressions such as “healthy vs. unhealthy foods”. The UN agreed language refers to “unhealthy diets” and “unhealthy lifestyles”. Several further evidence is contained in official statements published by the Italian Permanent Missions to the UN in New York, Geneva and Rome, as well as press release by the Italian authorities. For instance, https://italiarappginevra.esteri.it/rappginevra/resource/doc/2018/11/statement_ambassador_ cornado.pdf; https://italiarappginevra.esteri.it/rappginevra/resource/doc/2018/11/statement_5_november. pdf stating that it has already been agreed by the scientific community and in United Nations 35 36 Lauria et al. BMC Public Health (2019) 19:618 “Decline of childhood overweight and obesity in Italy from 2008 to 2016: results from 5 rounds of the population-based surveillance system”. OECD, Obesity and the Economics of Prevention: Fit not Fat. Available at: https://www.oecd.org/italy/ObesityUpdate-2014-ITALY.pdf. 17