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5 design principles to build more effective obesity prevention programs

This brief introduces five principles that will help those promoting nutrition and physical activity to approach their work in fresh ways. The principles are: - Start with consumers most ready for change - Learn from small trials - Keep it simple, concrete, and credible - Speak to the heart - Integrate with their lives

Published in 2010, by AED

Assessing the environmental impacts of consumption and production

The purpose of this report is to assess the best-available science from a global perspective to identify priorities among industry sectors, consumption categories and materials. For the first time, this assessment was done at the global level, identifying priorities for developed and developing countries. It supports international, national and sectoral...

Published in 2010, by UNEP

Double Pyramide: healthy food for people, sustainable food for the planet

"The double pyramide" positions foods not only following the criteria nutritional science has long recommended on the basis of their positive impact on health, but also in terms of their impact on the environment. The work aims to encourage the publication of further studies on the measurement of environmental impacts of food. The objective is to increase...

Published in 2010, by Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition

Getting fossil fuels off the plate

This publication is an excerpted chapter from The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises that features essays by some of the world’s most provocative thinkers on the key issues shaping our new century, from renewable energy and urban agriculture to social justice and community resilience.

Published in 2010, by Michael Bomford

Golden Rice's Lack of lustre

Addressing vitamin A deficiency without genetic engineering.

Published in 2010, by Greenpeace

Healthy growth and nutrition in children

Today more than ever, nutrition appears to be a testing ground where differences and inequalities between North and South of the world measure against each other, in particular with regards to childhood. In developed countries, if on the one hand obesity and overweight are dramatically increasing among young people, on the other adults has been affecting...

Published in 2010, by Barilla Center

Human Health and Well-Being in an Era of Energy Scarcity and Climate Change

This publication is an excerpted chapter from The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises that features essays by some of the world’s most provocative thinkers on the key issues shaping our new century, from renewable energy and urban agriculture to social justice and community resilience.

Published in 2010, by Cindy Parker, Brian Schwartz

Promoción del crecimiento para prevenir la desnutrición cronica: Estrategias con Base Comunitaria en Centro América

Los programas de promoción del crecimiento con base comunitaria (PCBC) son aquellos que apoyan el crecimiento de los niños y niñas mediante la consejería individualizada mensual a los padres sobre prácticas de cuidado, alimentación, tratamiento de enfermedades prevalentes y uso apropiado de los servicios de salud. Esta publicación busca servir de...

Published in 2009, by Banco Mundial - World Bank

The cultural dimension of food

The history of man's relationship with food is an extraordinary social and cultural epic. From the discovery of fire that, to quote Levi Strauss “made human beings human”, to the development of national culinary identities that, according to Rozin, represent the nutritional wisdom of the respective cultures, food is the authentic evidence at every...

Published in 2009, by Barilla Center

Food and the Environment - Tunza Vol. 6 No. 2

Tunza in UNEP's magazine for youth, and this Tunza Vol. 6 No. 2 is a special issue concentrating on themes on food and environment.

Published in 2008, by UNEP

Food consumption in Mexican adolescents

There are groups of adolescents who are less likely to consume healthy foods (such as fruits, vegetables, and dairy products). Socioeconomic and cultural processes that can explain the differences observed are discussed. Published in: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública / Pan American Journal of Public Health, 2008;24(2):127–35, ISSN 1020-4989, by...

Published in 2008, by PAHO, Ortiz-Hernández, Luis, Gómez-Tello Blanca Lilia

L’alimentation et l’environnement - Tunza Vol. 6 No. 2

Tunza est le magazine du PNUE pour les jeunes, et ce Tunza Vol 6 n ° 2 est un numéro spécial consacré à des questions alimentaires et l'environnement. SOMMAIRE Éditorial La crise de l’alimentation Les héros oubliés TUNZA répond à tes questions Déchets utiles La cuisine bas carbone Nourrir le monde Je retourne vers mon avenir Un...

Published in 2008, by PNUE - UNEP

Los Alimentos y el Medio Ambiente - Tunza Vol. 6 No. 2

Tunza es la revista del PNUMA para los jóvenes, y este Tunza Vol. 6 No. 2 es un número especial centrado en temas de alimentos y el medio ambiente. INDICE Editorial Alimento en crisis Héroes olvidados TUNZA contesta tus preguntas Basura útil Cortando carbono Alimentando el mundo Vuelvo al pasado para mi futuro Un dilema orgánico ...

Published in 2008, by PNUMA - UNEP

Construyendo un estilo de alimentación saludable, Proyecto del Centro Entre Todos

En este Cuaderno de Trabajo se presentan dos experiencias educativas de desarrollo integral de la primera infancia llevadas a cabo en Uruguay durante el año 2005. El documento está publicado en por El Sector de Educación de la Oficina de la UNESCO en Montevideo, en el serie "Cuaderno de trabajo: comunidades de prática". Está vinculado con el...

Published in 2007, by UNESCO

Back by popular demand: The benefits of traditional vegetables

This booklet describes how reintroducing traditional leafy vegetables had an impact on the lives of people in a community near Nairobi, Kenya, thanks largely to the inspiration of one farmer.

Published in 2006, by IPGRI

Policy related to the acceptance, distribution and use of milk products in refugee settings

Policy document for staff working in emergency settings and especially those involved with food ration planning.

Published in 2006, by UNHCR

Focusing Resources on Effective School Health: a FRESH start to enhancing the quality and equity of education

In April, 2000,WHO, UNESCO, UNICEF, and the World Bank jointly organized a strategy session at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal. The strategy session was aimed at raising the education sector’s awareness of the value of implementing an effective school health, hygiene and nutrition programme as one of its major strategies to achieve Education...

Published in 2001, by UNESCO, WHO, UNICEF, World Bank

Identifying, evaluating, and treating overweight and obesity in adults

National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the United States of America recently cooperated on the production of a guide to identifying, evaluating, and treating overweight and obesity in adults. The guide is mainly intended for such health care practitioners as primary care physicians, nurses, registered dietitians, and nutritionists, to help them provide their...

Published in 2001, by PAHO - OPS

Recursos Efectivos en Salud Escolar (RESE): un enfoque nuevo para mejorar la calidad y la equidad educativa

En Abril del año 2000 la Organizacion Mundial de la Salud, UNESCO, UNICEF y el Banco Mundial, colaboraron en la organización de una sesión de trabajo conjunto en el Foro Mundial Educativo desarrollado en Dakar, Senegal. Esta sesión estratégica, se propuso la meta de aumentar el interés y la concientización del sector educativo acerca del valor de...

Published in 2001, by UNESCO, OMS - WHO, UNICEF, Banco Mundial - World Bank

Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 18 - Low Birthweight

This Nutrition Policy Paper was produced by the ACC/SCN in collaboration with the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh: Centre for Health and Population Research. It summarizes the proceedings of the Low Birthweight Symposium and Workshop held in Dhaka in June 1999. Evidence regarding interventions to prevent low birthweight and...

Published in 2000, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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