Dietary guidelines - are they in line with a sustainable diet ?
Food-based Dietary Guidelines are documents produced by policy makers that recommend how citizens should eat. Since the 1960s, Dietary Guidelines have become one of many dietary change tools in a food policy maker’s tool-kit.Tensions between health and sustainability in Dietary Guidelines have been discussed since the early 2010s. Review of national healthy and sustainable dietary [...]
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Dietary guidelines - are they in line with a sustainable diet ?
Food-based Dietary Guidelines are documents produced by policy makers that recommend how citizens should eat. Since the 1960s, Dietary Guidelines have become one of many dietary change tools in a food policy maker’s tool-kit.Tensions between health and sustainability in Dietary Guidelines have been discussed since the early 2010s. Review of national healthy and sustainable dietary [...]
Nudges and food consumption behaviours
Recently, scholars from all over the world have been examining tools and methodologies to improve dietary intake among people to improve health and well-being. One of the most popular methodology is nudging, with various outcomes, based on the famous book by Thaler and Sunstein (2009). The theoretical and political philosophy concept that lies behind nudging [...]
Covid-19 and food consumption behaviors
Since January 2020, the world is facing a pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Social distancing and individual isolation have been implemented in different phases and with variable levels of restriction as extreme measures to control, or at least attenuate the spread of the disease. [...]
Actions and interventions to increase fruit and vegetables consumption
2021, as the International Year of Fruit and Vegetables, represents explicit support of the highest level for the fruit and vegetable sector (F&V), and offers an unprecedented opportunity for entities around the world that work tirelessly to promote F&V consumption, improve food security and highlight the relevance of F&V in healthier and more sustainable food [...]
Food consumption and lifestyle trends
The adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviors is programmed from an early age and extends into adolescence and young adulthood. Despite the importance of modifi able healthy dietary and lifestyle practices in mitigating noncommunicable diseases, there exists a limited understanding of population-level changes and current trends in food consumption and lifestyle behaviors in these populations. Understanding [...]