Better Nutrition by Increased Knowledge of food Nutritional Components

Food companies and nutrition for better health.

There is now broad acceptance that the future success of global health depends to a large extent upon sound nutrition and physical activity policies. Work with colleagues while at the WHO convinced me that such policies need to be developed and implemented in partnership with the corporate food sector if they are to achieve maximum impact. Soon after accepting my position at PepsiCo, Ricardo Ua...

Nutrition knowledge and food intake

Increased nutritional value in food crops

Modern agriculture and horticulture must combine two objectives that seem to be almost mutually exclusive: to satisfy the nutritional needs of an increasing human population and to minimize the negative impact on the environment. These two objectives are included in the Goal 2 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the United Nations: 'End hunger, achieve food security and improved n...

Nutrition knowledge and food consumption: can nutrition knowledge change food behaviour?

The status and explanatory role of nutrition knowledge is uncertain in public health nutrition. Much of the uncertainty about this area has been generated by conceptual confusion about the nature of knowledge and behaviours, and, nutrition knowledge and food behaviours in particular. So the paper describes several key concepts in some detail. The main argument is that 'nutrition knowledge' is a...

The contribution of three components of nutrition knowledge to socio-economic differences in food purchasing choices.

OBJECTIVES To assess socio-economic differences in three components of nutrition knowledge, i.e. knowledge of (i) the relationship between diet and disease, (ii) the nutrient content of foods and (iii) dietary guideline recommendations; furthermore, to determine if socio-economic differences in nutrition knowledge contribute to inequalities in food purchasing choices. DESIGN The cross-section...