“Healthy,” “diet,” or “hedonic”. How nutrition claims affect food-related perceptions and intake?

Health claims on foods: promoting healthy food choices or high salt intake?

Raised blood pressure (BP) is responsible for approximately 50 % of CHD deaths and over 60 % of stroke deaths. The risk of CVD increases progressively with increasing BP. However, the majority of CVD deaths attributable to BP occur at around 130/80 mmHg, when drug therapy is not indicated. Furthermore, there is a graded relationship between BP and CVD, down to at least 115/75 mmHg. Therefore, a...

Nutrition research to affect food and a healthy lifespan.

Proper nutrition offers one of the most effective and least costly ways to decrease the burden of many diseases and their associated risk factors, including obesity. Nutrition research holds the key to increasing our understanding of the causes of obesity and its related comorbidities and thus holds promise to markedly influence global health and economies. After outreach to 75 thought leaders,...

DIET AND NUTRITION: White House Proposes Healthy Food Financing Initiative

Beyond food and nutrition: How can cities be made healthy?

Urbanization is one of the predominant demographic trends of the late 20th century, with populations in developing countries moving in ever greater numbers from the rural countryside to cities of all sizes. The nutrition community is logically mostly fixated on issues of intake of foods and determination by nutritional status, and see urbanization and urban populations through that prism. Aside...

Nutrition knowledge and food intake