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WHO guidelines for Sodium and Potassium intake for adults and children (published in 2012) have now their executive summaries available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish.
The guidelines should be used in conjunction with other nutrient guidelines to develop and guide national policies and public health nutrition programmes.

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The 2013 FAO State of Food and Agriculture Report on "Food systems for better nutrition" has been released. 

For the press release and links: http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/176888/icode/
Link to SOFA Report: http://www.fao.org/publications/sofa/en/

For the key messages from the report, please click below.

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The May edition of the Advances in Nutrition Journal has a Supplement on "White Vegetables: A Forgotten Source of Nutrients".  It is interesting in that it looks at food components (phytochemicals) and nutrients, reminding us that there is more to life (and sight) than beta carotene....

To read the paper, please click on the link below.
 

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Save the Children launched the 14th annual State of the World's Mothers Report. Every year, this flagship report shines a light on the most challenging issues facing mothers and children and includes the Mother's Index which shows where mothers and children fare best and where they face the greatest risk of mortality.

This year's report focuses on the critical first day of life. More than 1 million babies die on the day they are born- making the birth day the most dangerous day for babies in nearly every country, rich and poor alike.

The report highlights approaches that are working to bring essential health care to the hard-to-reach places where most deaths occur. And it shows how millions more lives can be saved each year if we invest in proven solutions and help mothers do what's best for their children.

Finally, the report concludes with calling political leaders to take national and international action to step up efforts to tackle newborn, child and maternal mortality through:

• Strengthening health systems so mothers have greater access to skilled birth attendants;
• Fighting the underlying causes of newborn mortality, especially gender inequality and malnutrition;
• Investing in low-cost solutions that can dramatically reduce newborn mortality;
• Increasing commitments and funding to save the lives of mothers and newborns;

Please find the full report here.

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"Economic growth is necessary but not sufficient to accelerate reduction of hunger and malnutrition". This is the new key message of the FAO "The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012 ".

The State of Food Insecurity in the World raises awareness about global hunger issues, discusses underlying causes of hunger and malnutrition and monitors progress towards hunger reduction targets established at the 1996 World Food Summit and the Millennium Summit. The publication is targeted at a wide audience, including policy-makers, international organizations, academic institutions and the general public with a general interest in linkages between food security, and human and economic development.

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012 is published jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food Programme.

For more information, please contact: mailto:sofi@fao.org or visit the website.

You can download the report by clicking here.

For more details on the The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012, please click on the link below

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Essential Nutrition Actions: Improving maternal, newborn, infant and young child nutrition

WHO has issued a consolidated package of guidance on nutrition targeting the first 1,000 days of life. This publication contains essential nutrition actions (ENA) that policy-makers could implement to reduce infant and child mortality, improve physical and mental growth and development, and improve productivity. The package is divided in 2 parts:

• Part I presents the interventions currently recommended by WHO, their rationale and evidence and describes the actions required to implement them. The document uses a life course approach, from pre-conception throughout the first 2 years of life. 

• Part II analyses the implementation of ENAs in operational large-scale programmes, gives their effectiveness when delivered in an integrated fashion as well as their implications for designing future programmes and sustaining existing ones.

The report can be downloaded here. 

Global nutrition policy review: What does it take to scale up nutrition action?
The Global nutrition policy review analysed policy environment and governance, policy implementation in specific nutrition areas, policy coherence (identification of stakeholders and coordination mechanism) and the implementation of monitoring and evaluation.

The Review is based on a questionnaire survey conducted during 2009-2010, in which 119 WHO Member States and 4 territories participated. Results are presented by regions and complemented by the results of the in-depth country assessments of the Landscape Analysis on Countries' Readiness to Accelerate Action in Nutrition initiated by WHO in 2008. Though the Review identified a number of gaps in the design, content and implementation of these policies and programmes, it appears that much progress has been made since ICN 1992 in the design and implementation of national nutrition policies and plans of action.


The report can be downloaded here

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The Lancet Nutrition Series  are launched on 6^th June 2013 !
Five years after the initial series, The Lancet re-evaluates the problems of maternal and child undernutrition and also examines the growing problems of overweight and obesity for women and children, and their consequences in low-income and middle-income countries.

The Series highlights the availability of proven interventions that could address the persistent burden of malnutrition, presenting the best evidence and latest developments in the field.

Articles, papers and comments can be downloaded here.

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