2013;26(4) S Afr J Clin Nutr Mokori A, PhD Candidate, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Well-being, University of Pretoria, Pretoria Hendriks SL, PhD, Director, Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Rural Development and Agricultural Extension, University of Pretoria Oriskushaba P, MSc, Programme Coordinator, Lutheran World Federa...

It is presented a review of the guidelines implementation of the National Food and Nutrition Policy (PNAN) contextualizing the actions in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) scenario. At ten years of its publication, PNAN faces challenges both to expand and qualify the shares of food and nutrition on health. It is challenging to stand as interlocutor and legitimate representative of the a...

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...

To explore the views of a sample Portuguese food and nutrition professionals concerning labelling EU regulation for prepacked foods. A cross-sectional observational study was done by self-administered online survey data collection. Food entities were contacted to obtain professionals.

Food and nutrition environments are believed to contribute to obesity and chronic diseases. There is a need for valid, reliable measures of nutrition environments. Familiarity with previous efforts to measure food and nutrition environments can help researchers and practitioners build on past accomplishments. This article describes sources of food-environment data, discusses how they have been ...

This paper explores the possibilities of the nutrition-sensitive agriculture approach in the context of the programs and actions towards promoting food and nutrition sovereignty and security in Brazil. To analyze the links between nutrition and agriculture, this paper presents the conceptual framework related to food and nutrition security, and stresses the correlations among concepts, institut...

FAO, and its Nutrition and Consumer Protection Division, needs to maintain its strong and active role in the field of nutrition by providing an agricultural and food friendly perspective to nutritional problems and therefore a food and agriculture approach to their solution. This underlies the importance of FAO for nutrition and the importance of nutrition for FAO. FAO cannot leave it to other ...

Tina Immerstrand*, Kristina E. Andersson, Caroline Wange, Ana Rascon, Per Hellstrand, Margareta Nyman, Steve W. Cui, Björn Bergenståhl, Christian Trägårdh and Rickard Öste Division of Applied Nutrition and Food Chemistry, Department of Food Technology, Engineering and Nutrition, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, Lu...

2013;26(4) S Afr J Clin Nutr Mokori A, PhD Candidate, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Well-being, University of Pretoria, Pretoria Hendriks SL, PhD, Director, Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Rural Development and Agricultural Extension, University of Pretoria Oriskushaba P, MSc, Programme Coordinator, Lutheran World Federa...