KSA National Strategy for Diet and Physical Activity for the Years 2014- 2025.

This National Strategy for Diet and Physical Activity is a nationwide sectoral document aiming at reducing the non-communicable disease forms that are among the leading causes of death in Saudi Arabia. The main goal of the Strategy is health promotion through directing developmental efforts toward continuous individual, community, and country support. The objectives set up by the document are (i) limitation of risk factors for diseases related to an unbalanced diet and low physical activities; (ii) establishment of a system for risk factors monitoring; (iii) encouraging a partnership with health and other related sectors; (iv) strengthening organizational and man-power resources for empowerments of related laws and instructions; (v) raising public and health promotion programs directors' awareness concerning the positive impacts of diet and physical activity on health. The targets to be achieved are (i) lowering the rate of overweight and obesity; (ii) lowering the rate of people with low physical activities; (iii) increasing the rate of vegetable and fruit consumption; (iv) stabilizing the prevalence rate of hyperlipidemia; (v) stabilizing prevalence rate of diabetes mellitus. The target population identified consists of (i) children, adolescents, and females in child-bearing periods; (ii) health workers; (iii) workers in the field of the food industry, and in health insurance.
There are five types of strategies to be implemented to achieve the set objectives (1) national leaders' strategies including issuing laws and legislation and coordination with other governmental sectors, a coordination Committee for putting the plan into action, consultations with local specialists and international experts, national nutrition guidelines, and financial support; (2) supportive environmental strategies comprising schools and universities, workplaces, houses, and food establishments; (3) strategies of supportive Policies including advertisements and marketing through directed media, and food labeling; (4) supportive program strategies including training of health educators, health education and media, educational materials, and seminars and lectures, human and technical resources; (5) monitoring and supervision to determine knowledge, attitude and practices concerning nutritional status and physical activities.