This article reflects on the practices of existing food and nutrition education in the current context. Practices in public policy in food and nutrition are discussed starting from an analysis of government actions undertaken and their actions at the local level, particularly in outpatient clinical nutrition and/or attention to specific groups, seeking to identify theoretical and methodological...

OBJECTIVE To describe nutrition environments in formal child care for 3- and 4-year-olds. DESIGN Cross-sectional online survey of nutrition-related child-care policy and practice. Written nutrition policies were analysed using the Wellness Child Care Assessment Tool. SETTING Licensed child-care services in the Auckland, Counties Manukau and Waikato regions of New Zealand. SUBJECTS Eight h...

Some principal activities of government that pertain to nutrition and blood pressure are education, information, dietary guidance, food regulatory practices, health and nutrition monitoring, biomedical research and training, and legislation. The food industry, in turn, influences the marketplace and food consumption by its response to government activities and policies. Dietary guidance recomme...

OBJECTIVE To promote the new field of 'public nutrition' as a means to address, in a more efficient, sustainable and ethical manner, the world-wide epidemic of malnutrition--undernutrition and specific nutrient deficiencies, and also obesity and other nutrition-related chronic diseases. STRATEGY Grounded in the health promotion model, public nutrition applies the population health strategy to...

Like Archimedes who demanded a place to stand so that he could move the Earth, scientific journals also need a firm point to stand on. We use this example because it stresses the importance of determining the journal’s specific research field by editorial policies. One of the basic strategies for medical journals is to define their scope, which helps them to target specific readership, attract ...

Statistical significance tests (SSTs) have been the object of much controversy among social scientists. Proponents have hailed SSTs as an objective means for minimizing the likelihood that chance factors have contributed to research results; critics have both questioned the logic underlying SSTs and bemoaned the widespread misapplication and misinterpretation of the results of these tests. The ...

Abstract Background In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), malnutrition coupled with rising rates of undernutrition and the burden overweight/obesity remains one most significant public health challenges facing region. Nutrition-sensitive agriculture can play an important role in reducing by addressing underlying causes nutrition outcomes. Therefore, we aim to assess nutrition-sensitivity food policies S...

Childhood obesity is a major public health challenge in Europe. Schools are seen as an important setting to promote healthy diet and lifestyle in a protected environment and school food-related practices are essential in this regard. To understand what policy frameworks European countries have created to govern these practices, a systematic assessment of national school food policies across the...

While it is generally agreed that growth is a necessary precondition for reducing poverty, relatively little is known about the relationship between economic growth and nutrition and, hence, how economic policies can be leveraged to improve nutrition. This chapter argues that growth is good, but is not enough to improve nutrition. During the early stages of development, growth helps reduce the ...

The present paper considers the need to move from a 'health education' approach to dietary health to an approach that focuses on food and nutrition policies at the population level, and especially those policies that avoid widening the inequalities in health between different socio-economic groups and those policies that promote healthy diets among children. Recent moves at the international le...