Rationale and objective: Improving diet quality while decreasing environmental impacts is an important challenge for a healthy and sustainable food system.
Improving diet quality of preschool children is challenging in countries undergoing food environment and nutrition transition.
In the interest of public health, it is important to nudge children toward healthier food choices (e.g., beverages with less added sugar).
Background: Adolescents’ consumption of healthy foods is suboptimal in low- and middle-income countries.
Global trade has shaped food systems over centuries, but modern trade agreements are hastening these changes and making them more complex, with implications for public health and nutrition transition.
This Food Atlas provides a photograph series of the 360 meals most commonly eaten by adolescent girls in Thai Nguyen, Viet Nam.
It is of public health interest to nudge children toward healthier food choices such as beverages with less sugar.
Vietnam has successfully reduced population stunting, but ethnic minority groups are being systematically left behind, limiting progress on national reductions.
This paper examines how research on the impacts of food systems innovations can accelerate their contributions to healthier diets and to equitable and sustainable food systems more generally.
Background: Low quality diets are a public health problem affecting individuals of all ages worldwide.
To address malnutrition in low- and middle income countries (LMICs), more evidence is needed about the potential of food system innovations to help guide the transformation towards healthier, more sustainable, and equitable food systems.
Growth faltering is associated with adverse consequences during childhood and later life.
Although there is growing evidence on the role of preconception nutrition for birth outcomes, very few studies have evaluated the long-term effects of nutrition interventions during the preconception period on offspring cognitive outcomes.
Schools are an attractive entry point to improve children’s diets, as their eating habits can be shaped during childhood and the information disseminated from school can reach adults through children.
This fact sheet is organized to reflect the status and/or trends of different components in the framework for food systems for diets and nutrition based on a selection of indicators for each of the domains.
While there is growing evidence on the role of preconception nutrition for birth outcomes, very few studies have evaluated the effects of nutrition interventions during the preconception period on child development.