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Barilla Foundation Brings Health and Climate Together in New Double Pyramid
The Barilla Foundation New Double Pyramid includes seven cultural pyramids including ones for specific regions like South Asia where these rice workers come from. Other cultural regions include Latin America, East Asia, Nordic and Canada, USA, Mediterranean and Africa.
Credit: Deepak Kumar / Unsplash By Alison KentishNEW YORK, Apr 12 2021 (IPS) Following an extensive scientific review, the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition Foundation (BCFN) is preparing to launch a new food systems model which incorporates nutrition and climate.
Researchers from the Foundation teamed up with counterparts from the Frederico II Univers...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 12, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Alison Kentish Tags: Climate Change Economy & Trade Environment Featured Food & Agriculture Food Security and Nutrition Food Sustainability Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Natural Resources TerraViva United Nations Barilla Center for Source Type: news
The cost-effectiveness of government actions to reduce sodium intake through salt substitutes in Vietnam
ConclusionThis research shows that all three modelled salt substitution strategies would be good value for money relative to no intervention in Vietnam. The subsidised alternative would require the highest level of government investment; however the implementation costs will be exceeded by healthcare savings assuming a reasonable time horizon is considered.
Source: Archives of Public Health - March 11, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Substitution of pure fruit juice for fruit and sugar-sweetened beverages and cardiometabolic risk in EPIC-NL: a prospective cohort study
CONCLUSIONS: Substituting pure fruit juice for SSBs was associated with lower cardiometabolic risk, whereas substituting pure fruit juice for fruit was not associated with cardiometabolic risk.PMID:33641692 | DOI:10.1017/S1368980021000914
Source: Public Health Nutrition - March 1, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Floor R Scheffers Jolanda M A Boer Alet H Wijga Yvonne T van der Schouw Henri ëtte A Smit W M Monique Verschuren Source Type: research
Diet quality improvement and 30-year population health and economic outcomes: A microsimulation study.
CONCLUSIONS: This microsimulation study suggests that improvements in diet are likely to improve health and economic population outcomes over time.
PMID: 33436121 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Public Health Nutrition - January 13, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Herman PM, Nguyen P, Sturm R Tags: Public Health Nutr Source Type: research
Potato consumption and risk of cardio-metabolic diseases: evidence mapping of observational studies
ConclusionEvidence mapping found sufficient data on the association between potato intake and cardio-metabolic disease risk factors to warrant for a systematic review/meta-analysis of observational studies.
Source: Systematic Reviews - December 1, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Food as Prevention – Rising to Nutritional Challenges
Mothers and their children gather at a community nutrition centre in the little village of Rantolava, Madagascar, to learn more about a healthy diet. Credit: Alain Rakotondravony/IPSBy Gabriele RiccardiNAPLES, Italy, Nov 25 2020 (IPS) The risks factors contributing to the dramatic rise in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in recent decades have been known for a long time but the Covid-19 pandemic has brutally exposed our collective failure to deal with them.
Reporting on the findings of the latest Global Burden of Disease Study, The Lancet warns of a “perfect storm” created by the interaction of the highly infectious C...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 25, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Gabriele Riccardi Tags: Development & Aid Economy & Trade Featured Food Security and Nutrition Food Sustainability Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Inequity Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition Foun Source Type: news
Geospatial analysis of Mediterranean diet adherence in the United States.
CONCLUSIONS: There were significant geospatial and population disparities in MD adherence across the US regions. Future studies are needed to explore the causes of MD adherence disparities and develop effective interventions for MD promotion in the USA.
PMID: 32744198 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Public Health Nutrition - August 2, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Chen M, Creger T, Howard V, Judd SE, Harrington KF, Fontaine KR Tags: Public Health Nutr Source Type: research
Dietary patterns generated by the Treelet Transform and risk of stroke: a Danish cohort study.
CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study are broadly in line with current recommendations for a healthy diet to prevent stroke.
PMID: 32204745 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Public Health Nutrition - March 23, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Frederiksen SB, Themsen HH, Overvad K, Dahm CC Tags: Public Health Nutr Source Type: research
Does Adherence to Mediterranean Diet Mediate the Association Between Food Environment and Obesity Among Non-Hispanic Black and White Older US Adults? A Path Analysis.
CONCLUSION: Population-tailored interventions/policies to modify food environment and promote MD consumption are needed in order to combat the obesity crisis in the United States.
PMID: 32048856 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: American Journal of Health Promotion : AJHP - February 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Chen M, Howard V, Harrington KF, Creger T, Judd SE, Fontaine KR Tags: Am J Health Promot Source Type: research
Let Plants be Thy Medicine – You Are What You Eat
Credit: Busani Bafana/IPSBy Esther Ngumbi and Ifeanyi NsoforILLINOIS, United States / ABUJA, Oct 16 2019 (IPS) United Nations World Food Day is celebrated around the world on October 16 under the theme: “Our Actions ARE Our Future. Healthy Diets for a Zero Hunger World”. This theme is timely, especially, because across Africa and around the world, there has been a gradual rise in malnutrition and diet-related non communicable diseases, as highlighted in The Lancet study and a United Nations Report published earlier this year.
While 45 percent of deaths in children are from nutrition-related causes, mainly malnu...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 16, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Esther Ngumbi and Ifeanyi Nsofor Tags: Food & Agriculture Global Headlines Health World Food Day Source Type: news
‘Salty’ Concern: Tackling High Salt Consumption in China
Veena S. Kulkarni, Associate Professor, Department of Criminology, Sociology and Geography, Arkansas State University, USA; and Raghav Gaiha, (Hon.) Professorial Research Fellow, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, England.By Veena S. Kulkarni and Raghav GaihaNEW DELHI, India and JONESBORO, US, Oct 7 2019 (IPS) China’s almost meteoric transition from a being a low income to a middle income country within a span of four decades is often perceived as a miracle analogous to the post Second World War Japanese economic development experience. China’s GDP rose from $200 current United States dollars (US$ ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 7, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Veena Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha Tags: Asia-Pacific Development & Aid Economy & Trade Food & Agriculture Food Sustainability Globalisation Headlines Health Labour TerraViva United Nations Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition Foundation (BCFN) Source Type: news
Associations between coffee consumption and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in a Japanese city: the Takayama study.
CONCLUSION: Drinking coffee, even 1 cup/d, was inversely associated with all-cause mortality and mortality from cardiovascular, infectious and digestive diseases.
PMID: 31107195 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Public Health Nutrition - May 19, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Yamakawa M, Wada K, Goto Y, Mizuta F, Koda S, Uji T, Nagata C Tags: Public Health Nutr Source Type: research
Depression Is More than a Stigma
Manoj K. Pandey is Lecturer in Economics, Australian National University; Vani S. Kulkarni is Lecturer in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania; and Raghav Gaiha is (Hon. ) Professorial Research Fellow, Global Development Institute, University of ManchesterBy Manoj K. Pandey, Vani S. Kulkarni and Raghav GaihaCanberra, Philadelphia and Manchester, Mar 20 2019 (IPS) Depression is often distinguished from other non-communicable diseases or NCDs (e.g., cancer, diabetes, cardio-vascular diseases, hypertension) because of the stigma attached to it. Among other consequences, those suffering from depression are often denied access...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 20, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Manoj K. Pandey - and Raghav Gaiha Tags: Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights TerraViva United Nations Women's Health Source Type: news
Diet drinks may be associated with strokes among post-menopausal women
(American Heart Association) In a large observational study, women who reported drinking more than one diet soda or other artificially sweetened drink a day had a higher risk of strokes caused by a blood clot.The association between diet drinks and stroke risk was stronger in obese women and in African-American women.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - February 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
