A new nutrition manifesto for a new nutrition reality

Branca, Francesco; Demaio, Alessandro; Udomkesmalee, Emorn; Baker, Phillip; Aguayo, Víctor M.; Barquera, Sı́món; Dain, Katie; Keir, Lindsay; Lartey, Anna; Mugambi, Gladys; Oenema, Stineke; Piwoz, Ellen; Richardson, Robert E.; Singh, Sudhvir; Sullivan, Lucy Martinez; Verburg, G.; Fracassi, Patrizia; Mahy, Lina; Neufeld, Lynnette M.

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(19)32690-x

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“…However, these multiple forms of child malnutrition share common risk factors, including poor maternal nutrition and care practices, consumption of nutrient-poor diets during the first 2 years of life, and socioeconomic deprivations including inadequate access to safe water and sanitation, poverty, and inequities. Silos must be broken down through a realignment of narratives, policies, and programmes across the life cycle to ensure that countries address maternal and child malnutrition in all its forms (Branca et al, 2019) 6.2 | Second, improving women's nutrition is central to breaking the intergenerational triple burden of malnutrition in East Asia and the Pacific Poor maternal nutrition is a key driver of child malnutrition; children born to short and undernourished mothers are more likely to be born with a low birth weight and significantly higher risk for stunting, 6.3 | Third, an integrated multisectoral approach is needed to address the multiple determinants to child malnutrition…”

Section: Addressing the Triple Burden In A Changing Food Environmentmentioning

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Triple trouble: Understanding the burden of child undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and overweight in East Asia and the Pacific

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Aguayo

2020

Maternal & Child Nutrition

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Young children in the East Asia and the Pacific region 1 are failing to thrive, in large numbers, as indicated by stagnation in the decline of stunting, wasting, and micronutrient deficiencies and the fastest growing rates of overweight in the world. Eliminating the triple burden of malnutrition is essential to ensure that, as a matter of right, all children reach their full physical growth and development potential and actively contribute to equitable prosperity and the sustainable development of their communities and nations. Ending all forms of malnutrition will only be achieved through the implementation of effective policies and programmes soundly based on an understanding of the leading contextual drivers of child malnutrition. To address the lack of data on these drivers in the region, the UNICEF regional office for East Asia and the Pacific commissioned a series of papers in 2017–2019 to fill gaps in the current body of evidence on the triple burden of maternal and child malnutrition. This series includes analyses of the determinants of child malnutrition including maternal nutrition status, dietary quality of children, inequity, and poverty. Additionally, policy and programmatic actions associated with improved coverage and quality of nutrition interventions are reviewed. This overview paper summarizes the findings of these analyses and presents recommendations for the direction of future advocacy, policy, and programmatic actions to address the triple burden of malnutrition in East Asia and the Pacific.

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Section: Addressing the Triple Burden In A Changing Food Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Triple trouble: Understanding the burden of child undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and overweight in East Asia and the Pacific

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Rudert

Aguayo

2020

Maternal & Child Nutrition

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“…This practice opens up the potential for poorest communities, which are most affected by hunger and poverty, to mitigate nutrient deficiencies and malnutrition (Branca et al, 2020;Popkin, Corvalan, & Grummer-Strawn, 2019;Ramos-Elorduy, 2008) Huis & Oonincx, 2017). Recent estimates suggest that the CO 2 production can be up to 20 times lower than livestock industries of beef and lamb (Halloran et al, 2017; see Figure 3a; see also references in https://www.carbo ncloud.io/carbo ndata /) because insects are more efficient at converting food into biomass, although food conversion rates might vary depending on the life F I G U R E 2 Edible insects and their potential for supplementing diets.…”

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Addressing global challenges with unconventional insect ecosystem services: Why should humanity care about insect larvae?

Morimoto

2020

People and Nature

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Ecosystem services are essential for the health of current and future generations and key to the sustainable development of our societies. The role of insects in providing ecosystem services has been increasingly recognized, becoming the focus of several management and conservation initiatives world‐wide. However, ecosystem services framework traditionally overlooks the full range of services that can be provided by insects, largely because services provided by life stages other than the insect adult are often neglected. In this paper, I first review the traditional ecosystem services primarily attributed to insects, namely edible insects and mass‐rearing for biological control. Next, I provide a collection of unconventional ecosystem services provided by insect larvae which highlights the importance of considering life stage‐specific services in a holistic view of the ecosystem services framework. In particular, I discuss recent advances that revealed how insect larvae can degrade plastic, which is one of humanity's greatest environmental pollutants, and how larvae can be used to produce biofuel to help overcome the increasing contribution of the fossil fuel industry to climate change. I then discuss how toxic compounds produced by the larvae of some insects provide potential new medicines for clinical treatment and lastly, I discuss a unique example of how the larval stage of insects is entrenched into the cultural values of Aboriginal communities in Australia. In conclusion, by acknowledging life stage‐specific ecosystem services provided by insects, this paper raises awareness of unconventional services that can underpin innovative solutions to contemporary global challenges, which can ultimately help create more sustainable and culturally diverse societies.

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“…2.4 billion adults experience health-related problems due to malnutrition (https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ malnutrition). Such alarming numbers have prompted scientists, clinicians, and policy makers to develop a more integrative nutrition science, by focusing their research on the effects of nutrition across a wide variety of contexts, spanning from fundamental science involving animal nutrition and the consequences to animal behaviour and evolution to human disease [1,2].…”

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Open Data for Open Questions in Comparative Nutrition

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Lihoreau

2020

Insects

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Achieving a better understanding of the consequences of nutrition to animal fitness and human health is a major challenge of our century. Nutritional ecology studies increasingly use nutritional landscapes to map the complex interacting effects of nutrient intake on animal performances, in a wide range of species and ecological contexts. Here, we argue that opening access to these hard-to-obtain, yet considerably insightful, data is fundamental to develop a comparative framework for nutrition research and offer new quantitative means to address open questions about the ecology and evolution of nutritional processes.

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A new nutrition manifesto for a new nutrition reality

Cited by 49 publications

References 5 publications

Triple trouble: Understanding the burden of child undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and overweight in East Asia and the Pacific

Triple trouble: Understanding the burden of child undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and overweight in East Asia and the Pacific

Addressing global challenges with unconventional insect ecosystem services: Why should humanity care about insect larvae?

Open Data for Open Questions in Comparative Nutrition

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