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Schools should provide nutrition education (and healthy lunches).
The UN’s commitment to the Millennium Development Goals – which included four health-related targets, covering nutrition, maternal and child health, and infectious diseases – reflected a political consensus to improve health worldwide.
In both yeast and worms, SIR2 appears to sense the availability of food and stall the aging process in times of deprivation by stimulating the formation of specialized body types--spores in yeast and dauers in worms--that can survive for extraordinarily long periods without nutrition.
A handful of influential ADB bureaucrats with large salaries, secured pensions, comprehensive health insurance, subsidized housing, and education for their children, have apparently decided that financing subsidized housing, health, nutrition, and child protection programs is not a priority.
That means guaranteeing that all women and girls have access to health care and information, proper nutrition, and safe and effective learning environments at all levels.
Improved social protection can help to ensure adequate food consumption and enable recipients to invest in their own nutrition, health, and other productive capacities.
More important, it would free up money for other areas like health and nutrition, where simple measures can have a massive impact relative to their cost.
Adequate nutrition improves a child’s long-term health, educational performance, and future earnings.
Investing in nutrition is another no-brainer: measures such as salt iodization, and iron and folic acid and vitamin A supplementation can cost just a few cents annually per recipient.
Governments must also develop and implement policies aimed at ensuring that those who are typically marginalized from the formal food industry – women, young people, ethnic minorities, and non-landowners – have reliable access to adequate nutrition and opportunities to participate in agricultural production.
As the 2013 World Economic Forum Report put it: “Global food and nutrition security is a major global concern as the world prepares to feed a growing population on a dwindling resource base, in an era of increased volatility and uncertainty.”
To this one could add, stop wrecking the oceans, greatly enlarge investment in agricultural research and development, and move proper nutrition for all to the very top of the global policy agenda.
These include reducing fast-food portions, restricting food and beverage advertising, providing consumers (especially parents) with better nutrition information, reformulating processed foods, requiring more exercise at school, and ensuring balanced, varied, and healthy meals at school and workplaces.
Following the Second International Conference on Nutrition, organized by the UN Food and Agricultural Organization and the WHO in Rome last November, some worried that the extent of nutrition issues (including undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and excessive weight), as well as their human and economic burden, were overestimated.
Likewise, public and private investors should be made aware of the very high returns associated with tackling nutrition issues.
“The right of women to own, manage, enjoy, and dispose of property,” the committee ruled, “is central to their financial independence and may be critical to their ability to earn a livelihood and to provide adequate housing and nutrition for themselves and for their children.”
Another, the Multidimensional Poverty Index, uses ten indicators, including nutrition, sanitation, and access to cooking fuel and water.
Consider the food industry, particularly its sometimes-malign influence on nutrition and health.
Of course, the problems of the food industry have been vigorously highlighted by experts on nutrition and health, including Michael Pollan and David Katz, and certainly by many economists as well.
Moreover, the US has one of the highest rates of childhood poverty among the advanced countries (which was especially true before austerity policies dramatically increased poverty in several European countries), and lack of nutrition and health care in childhood has lifelong effects.
These included increased immunization coverage, initiatives to reduce school dropout rates, community-based nutrition promotion, and micronutrient supplementation.
One lesson we can draw is that while global warming may exacerbate problems like malnutrition, communities bolstered by adequate nutrition will generally be less vulnerable to climate-based threats.
And much larger cuts are in store for early-childhood nutrition programs and health care.
Now, new legislation mandates better nutrition, bans sugary drinks and sweets, and forbids the parallel sale of unhealthy alternatives to the main menu (which had been a major source of funding for subsidized lunches).
Indeed, how to change school lunches has more to do with money and business than with health and nutrition.
I expected to hear about lobbying efforts and nutrition, but mostly I learned about supply chains.
And vendors such as Revolution Foods, founded by two mothers of school-age children, provide not only food, but also nutrition curricula for students, and even vocational training for food workers.
The US, which remains the world’s largest donor for nutrition programs and for maternal and child health initiatives, is leading the funding retreat.
We react more acutely to pictures of starving children than to reports of improving nutrition levels in Africa.
Many governments have launched initiatives to improve nutrition education.
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