World Food Day: Our Actions Are Our Future – Healthy Diets for a Zero Hunger World
Achieving Zero Hunger is not only about addressing hunger, but also nourishing people, while nurturing the planet. This year, World Food Day calls for action across sectors to make healthy and sustainable diets affordable and accessible to everyone. At the same time, it calls on everyone to start thinking about what we eat.*
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Less time is spent preparing meals at home, and consumers, especially in urban areas, increasingly rely on supermarkets, fast food outlets, street food vendors and take-away restaurants.
A combination of unhealthy diets and sedentary lifestyles has sent obesity rates soaring, not only in developed countries, but also low-income countries, where hunger and obesity often coexist. Now over 670 million adults and 120 million girls and boys (5-19 years) are obese, and over 40 million children under 5 are overweight, while over 820 million people suffer from hunger.
An unhealthy diet is the leading risk factor for deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and certain cancers. Linked with one fifth of deaths worldwide, unhealthy eating habits are also taking a toll on national health budgets costing up to USD 2 trillion per year.
Obesity and other forms of malnutrition affect nearly one in three people. Projections indicate that the number will be one in two by 2025. The good news is that affordable solutions exist to reduce all forms of malnutrition, but they require greater global commitment and action.
In the way our food systems currently work, from agricultural production to processing and retailing, there is little space for fresh, locally produced foods as staple crops such as cereals take priority. Intensified food production, combined with climate change, is causing a rapid loss of biodiversity.
Today only nine plant species account for 66% of total crop production despite the fact that throughout history, more than 6000 species have been cultivated for food. A diverse variety of crops is crucial for providing healthy diets and safeguarding the environment.
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A healthy diet is one that meets the nutritional needs of individuals by providing sufficient, safe, nutritious and diverse foods to lead an active life and reduce the risk of disease. It includes, among others, fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds and whole grains, and foods that are low in fats (especially saturated fats), sugar and salt.
Nutritious foods that constitute a healthy diet are not available or affordable for many people.
While over 820 million suffer from hunger, even more people suffer from overweight and obesity.
Over 670 million adults and 120 million boys and girls (age 5-19) are obese and over 40 million children are overweight.
Unhealthy diets, combined with sedentary lifestyles, have overtaken smoking as the world’s number 1 risk factor for disability and death worldwide.
An estimated 2 trillion dollars is spent each year to treat health problems caused by obesity.
Billions of people lack the essential vitamins and minerals their bodies need to lead an active and healthy life.
Environmental damage caused by the food system could increase 50 – 90%, due to the increased consumption of processed foods, meat and other animal-source products in low- and middle-income countries.
Different forms of malnutrition can co-exist within the same household and even the same individual during their life and can be passed from one generation to the next.
Of some 6,000 plant species have been cultivated for food throughout human history, today only 8 of them supplymore than 50% of our daily calories.
Climate change threatens to reduce not only the quantity of crops, lowering yields, but also the quality or nutritious value.
*SOURCE: FAO. Go to ORIGINAL. 2019 Human Wrongs Watch
Source: https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2019/10/16/world-food-day-our-actions-are-our-future-healthy-diets-for-a-zero-hunger-world/
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