Bellagio report on Healthy agriculture, healthy nutrition, healthy people⋆
The Bellagio Report on Healthy agriculture, healthy nutrition, healthy people is the result of the meeting held at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Lake Como, Italy, 29 October–2 November 2012. The meeting was science-based but policy-oriented. The role and...
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| author | Simopoulos Artemis P. Bourne Peter G. Faergeman Ole |
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| description | The Bellagio Report on Healthy agriculture, healthy nutrition, healthy people
is the result of the meeting held at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center
in Lake Como, Italy, 29 October–2 November 2012. The meeting was science-based but
policy-oriented. The role and amount of healthy and unhealthy fats, with attention to the
relative content of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, sugar, and particularly fructose in
foods that may underlie the epidemics of non-communicable diseases (NCD’s) worldwide were
extensively discussed. The report concludes that sugar consumption, especially in the form
of high energy fructose in soft drinks, poses a major and insidious health threat,
especially in children, and most diets, although with regional differences, are deficient
in omega-3 fatty acids and too high in omega-6 fatty acids. Gene-nutrient interactions in
growth and development and in disease prevention are fundamental to health, therefore
regional Centers on Genetics, Nutrition and Fitness for Health should be established
worldwide. Heads of state and government must elevate, as a matter of urgency, Nutrition
as a national priority, that access to a healthy diet should be considered a human right
and that the lead responsibility for Nutrition should be placed in Ministries of Health
rather than agriculture so that the health requirements drive agricultural priorities, not
vice versa. Nutritional security should be given the same priority as
food security. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dbf5b29c82654405a10134d589c1f52b2022-12-21T22:10:32ZengEDP SciencesOilseeds and fats, crops and lipids2257-66142013-07-01204A40210.1051/ocl/2013002ocl20-4-A2Bellagio report on Healthy agriculture, healthy nutrition, healthy people⋆Simopoulos Artemis P.0Bourne Peter G.1Faergeman Ole2The Center for Genetics, Nutrition and HealthGreen Templeton College, University of OxfordDepartment of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Aarhus Sygehus University HospitalThe Bellagio Report on Healthy agriculture, healthy nutrition, healthy people is the result of the meeting held at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Lake Como, Italy, 29 October–2 November 2012. The meeting was science-based but policy-oriented. The role and amount of healthy and unhealthy fats, with attention to the relative content of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, sugar, and particularly fructose in foods that may underlie the epidemics of non-communicable diseases (NCD’s) worldwide were extensively discussed. The report concludes that sugar consumption, especially in the form of high energy fructose in soft drinks, poses a major and insidious health threat, especially in children, and most diets, although with regional differences, are deficient in omega-3 fatty acids and too high in omega-6 fatty acids. Gene-nutrient interactions in growth and development and in disease prevention are fundamental to health, therefore regional Centers on Genetics, Nutrition and Fitness for Health should be established worldwide. Heads of state and government must elevate, as a matter of urgency, Nutrition as a national priority, that access to a healthy diet should be considered a human right and that the lead responsibility for Nutrition should be placed in Ministries of Health rather than agriculture so that the health requirements drive agricultural priorities, not vice versa. Nutritional security should be given the same priority as food security.http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/ocl/2013002Fatsomega-3omega-6sugarfructosenutritional securityhealth policy |
| spellingShingle | Simopoulos Artemis P. Bourne Peter G. Faergeman Ole Bellagio report on Healthy agriculture, healthy nutrition, healthy people⋆ Oilseeds and fats, crops and lipids Fats omega-3 omega-6 sugar fructose nutritional security health policy |
| title | Bellagio report on Healthy agriculture, healthy nutrition,
healthy people⋆ |
| title_full | Bellagio report on Healthy agriculture, healthy nutrition,
healthy people⋆ |
| title_fullStr | Bellagio report on Healthy agriculture, healthy nutrition,
healthy people⋆ |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bellagio report on Healthy agriculture, healthy nutrition,
healthy people⋆ |
| title_short | Bellagio report on Healthy agriculture, healthy nutrition,
healthy people⋆ |
| title_sort | bellagio report on healthy agriculture healthy nutrition healthy people⋆ |
| topic | Fats omega-3 omega-6 sugar fructose nutritional security health policy |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/ocl/2013002 |
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