The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change

Swinburn, Boyd; Hovmand, Peter S.; Waterlander, Wilma E; Allender, Steven

doi:10.1002/9781119695257.ch31

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“…51 However, this transition has also been associated with a global rise in obesity, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes. 9,13 The combined number of overweight and obese adults globally is projected to rise from 1.33 to 3.28 billion between 2005 and 2030. 51,52 In Nigeria and Ethiopia, the number of adults with diabetes is projected to double from 2011 to 2030.…”

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“…4,6 To date, governments, industry, and civil society organizations in high-income countries have faced barriers to taking action on diets in a holistic manner, leading to modest and slow improvement. 5,9 In many low-income countries, governments have implemented health and agricultural development programs to reduce undernutrition, and are beginning to take steps to address poor dietary quality, but have struggled to embrace more comprehensive food system strategies that would balance multiple desired outcomes related to nutrition, food security, climate, environment, and socioeconomic development. 10 In this paper, we set out to challenge the view that changing food demand is more difficult than changing food supply, with a more hopeful vision for dietary transformation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Changing diets and the transformation of the global food system

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Khoury

et al. 2020

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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An aspirational global food system is one that delivers across a suite of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including universal access to healthy diets, which can also codeliver on climate and environment SDGs. The literature has downplayed the relative contribution of dietary change to sustainable food systems. In this perspective article, we argue that the potential for positive transformational change in diets should not be underestimated, for two sets of reasons. First, the dynamism of diets over long-term and, especially, recent history shows the potential for rapid and widespread change, including toward more diverse and healthier diets. Second, contemporary behavioral research demonstrates promising tactics to influence consumers' dietary choices. Since the entire food system creates the circumstances of those choices, the most effective strategies to shift diets will involve multiple approaches that deliberately aim not just to influence consumers themselves but also to incentivize all actors in the food systems, taking into account multiple agendas and values. The effectiveness of actions will depend on the political economy at local, national, and global levels. Overall, there are reasons to be hopeful about the potential for accelerated global dietary change, given both historic trends and the growing suite of tools and approaches available.

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Section: Diets In Fluxmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Changing diets and the transformation of the global food system

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Park

Khoury

et al. 2020

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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“…Interventions aiming to change the food offered to children, reducing red meat and increasing alternative protein sources, such as pulses and nuts, could have a strong impact on health and the environment. Also, these foods are less expensive when compared to meat (Swinburn et al. , 2019).…”

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Children’s menus in shopping centre restaurants: a multicentric study

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Lima

Afonso

et al. 2021

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PurposeThe aim of this study is to identify and characterize kids' menu offer in fast-food and traditional restaurants located in shopping centres in five different countries.Design/methodology/approachAn observational cross-sectional study is carried out, though a study was performed in all restaurants located in shopping centres from main cities, in five countries: Brazil, Chile, Croatia, Hungary and Portugal. A tool for assessing the quality of menus is used for the analysis (Kids Menu Healthy Score (KIMEHS)). Menu prices between countries were compared.FindingsA total of 192 kids' menus were collected, 44 in Portugal, 57 in Brazil, 66 in Chile, 15 in Hungary and 10 in Croatia. All the countries have average negative KIMEHS values for the menus, indicating that the offer is generally poor in terms of healthy options. The cost of children's menus in European countries is generally low. In Brazil, the price is significantly more expensive, which may limit the accessibility by social economically deprived populations. No significant differences were found in the average cost of meals from different restaurants typology. Traditional/Western restaurants present the highest price.Practical implicationsGlobally, kids' menus are composed by unhealthy food items, pointing to the need of improvements in food availability, aiming to promote healthy food habits among children.Originality/valueThis study presents innovative data on children's menus, allowing for characterization of meals offered to children and comparison between different countries.Key pointsKids’ menus are composed by unhealthy food items.Improvement of kids' menus quality will promote children food habits.Healthier out-of-home food consumption will contribute to public health.

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“…A lo anterior se agrega el cambio climático, que junto con la obesidad y desnutrición, constituyen una "sindemia global", definida como una sinergia de epidemias que ocurren al mismo tiempo y en los mismos lugares, interactuando unas con otras, con los mismos factores sociales subyacentes 2 .…”

Section: International Year Of Fruits and Vegetables 2021unclassified

“…Esto concuerda con lo recomendado por la Comisión EAT de Lancet 2019: "El consumo mundial de frutas, vegetales, frutos secos y legumbres deberá duplicarse, y el consumo de carne roja y azúcar deberá reducirse en más de un 50%. Una dieta rica en alimentos de origen vegetal y con menos alimentos de origen animal confiere una buena salud y beneficios ambientales"2 .En tercer lugar, se creó conciencia de la necesidad de reducir pérdidas y desperdicios, que en el caso de las frutas y verduras significa más del 50 por ciento de lo que se produce, que es mayor en los países más pobres5 .En Chile apareció cada vez más repetida la palabra…”

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Año internacional de frutas y verduras 2021

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2022

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The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change

Cited by 28 publications

References 49 publications

Changing diets and the transformation of the global food system

Changing diets and the transformation of the global food system

Children’s menus in shopping centre restaurants: a multicentric study

Año internacional de frutas y verduras 2021

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