Disentangling nutrition facts from fiction: Towards healthy and sustainable consumption in industrialized societies

Authors

  • Clara Gómez-Donoso University of Navarra (Spain).
  • Miguel A. Martínez-González University of Navarra (Spain).
  • Maira Bes-Rastrollo University of Navarra (Spain).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.11.16202

Keywords:

nutrition transition, ultraprocessed food, non-communicable diseases, environmental sustainability, public health strategies

Abstract

Over the last centuries, in the context of industrialization, globalization, and urbanization, profound dietary changes have occurred. Ubiquitous access to cheap, readily available and highly palatable unhealthy products, together with aggressive marketing that significantly influences social norms, have led to overconsumption of energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods. This has not only been associated with a higher prevalence of obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases, but also with detrimental effects on the world’s natural resources. Broader and braver public health measures favoring the availability and affordability of healthy, minimally processed foods should be implemented in conjunction with educational strategies to re-encourage a healthy and sustainable food consumption.

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Author Biographies

Clara Gómez-Donoso, University of Navarra (Spain).

Pharmacist and PhD candidate in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Navarra (Spain). She is supported by a predoctoral contract for training in health research (PFIS) (FI18/00073) of the Carlos III Health Institute.

Miguel A. Martínez-González, University of Navarra (Spain).

Full Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Navarra (Spain), Adjunct Full Professor at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (USA), group coordinator of the Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBERobn), and principal investigator in the projects SUN, PREDIMED, and PREDIMED-Plus. 

Maira Bes-Rastrollo, University of Navarra (Spain).

Full Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Navarra (Spain), principal investigator at the Healthcare Research Institute of Navarre (IdiSNA) and associated researcher at the Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBERobn). 

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2021-01-21

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Gómez-Donoso, C., Martínez-González, M. A., & Bes-Rastrollo, M. (2021). Disentangling nutrition facts from fiction: Towards healthy and sustainable consumption in industrialized societies. Metode Science Studies Journal, (11), 123–129. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.11.16202
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Good to eat. Food and health at a time of information overload

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