Food sovereignty has been defined as "the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems." Human health is an implied component of this definition through the principle of healthy food. In fact, improved human health is commonly cited as a benefit of transfo...

Today's industrial food production contributes significantly to environmental degradation. Meat production accounts for the largest impact, including greenhouse gas emissions, land and water use. While food production and consumption are important aspects when addressing climate change, this article focuses predominantly on dietary change that promotes both health for planet and people with foc...

The lack of information regarding older adults' health and lifestyles makes it difficult to design suitable interventions for people at risk of developing unhealth lifestyles. Therefore, there is a need to increase knowledge about older adults' food patterns and quality of life. Our aim was to determine associations among food patterns, anxiety, depression, and life satisfaction in Norwegian in...

The aim of the study was to develop compositions dehydrated products for a healthy diet using principles food combinatorics. Two types snack from plant materials were developed as objects study. performed by calculation method nutritional value calculated according tables chemical composition and based on these recommendations use vitamins men women (2 groups labor intensity). Vitamins biologic...

BACKGROUND Low dietary quality is a key contributor to obesity and related illnesses, and lower income is generally associated with worse dietary profiles. The unequal geographic distribution of healthy food resources could be a key contributor to income disparities in dietary profiles. PURPOSE To explore the role that economic segregation can have in creating income differences in healthy ea...

BACKGROUND Obesity is a growing public health concern in Canada. Excess weight is particularly a concern among youth given that obesity in youth predicts obesity in adulthood. Eating behaviors, both inside and outside the home have been associated with increased risk of obesity; however, there is little data among Canadian youth to monitor trends. METHODS The School Health Action, Planning an...

Although dietary diversity is universally recognized as a key component of healthy diets, there is still a lack of consensus on how to measure and operationalize it. This paper focuses on the issues of dietary diversity in developing countries. It also draws upon experience from developed countries to address the following questions: 1. How is dietary diversity conceptualized, operationalized, ...

In recent years, food safety problems have become increasingly serious in China, and major food safety accidents have seriously affected people's daily lives, having negative influence on the healthy development of the food industry and the whole economy. Therefore, it is necessary to analyse existing problems of food safety, further study the main cause of frequent incidents of food safety, an...