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This book is the first of its kind to tackle in detail the nutritional requirements of the industrialized, so-called developed world. It discusses the link between socio-economic status and food security, focusing especially on the relationship between income and food security in different age groups. The authors calculate the actual levels of essential micronutrients delivered by current dietary patterns, identifying important shortfalls in the provision of key micronutrients, and elucidate the public health consequences of nutrition insecurity. Finally, the authors discuss future approaches for ensuring nutrition security on the basis of three pillars: access, availability and nutritional value. The approaches advocated in this ground-breaking publication will allow all people, irrespective of age and social status, to have access to a safe and nutritious diet. Key stakeholders such as legislators, government, academia and industry, as well as consumers themselves, all have important roles to play in making this a reality.
Over the years, approaches to obesity prevention and treatment have
gone from focusing on genetic and other biological factors to
exploring a diversity of diets and individual behavior modification
interventions anchored primarily in the power of the mind, to the
recent shift focusing on societal interventions to design
"temptation-proof" physical, social, and economic environments. In
spite of repeated calls to action, including those of the World
Health Organization (WHO), the pandemic continues to progress. WHO
recently projected that if the current lifestyle trend in young and
adult populations around the world persist, by 2012 in countries
like the USA, health care costs may amount to as much as 17.7% of
the GDP. Most importantly, in large part due to the problems of
obesity, those children may be the first generation ever to have a
shorter life expectancy than that of their parents.
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