Global F&V Newsletter
The Global Fruit and Veg Newsletter (GFVN) is a monthly newsletter published since 2006 * throughout more than 30 countries involved in the promotion of fruit and vegetables consumption worldwide to improve public health. The articles published are scientifically based and come from the literature review. Doing so allows us to disseminate the scientific knowledge outside the box and share the work with more than 10 000 readers from other disciplines (Scientists, health professionals, fruit and vegetable professionals, consumer associations, journalists and general public).
*GFVN replaces the Ifava Scientific Newsletter
« NUTRITION POLICY »
Comprehensive policy recommendations to improve eating habits, including increasing fruit and vegetable (F&V) intake, have been made by governments and national health/scientific organizations around the world. Many countries are engaged in nutrition policy as nutritionrelated diseases reach epidemic levels and become major public health concerns. Governments have many policy tools to use to improve nutrition [...]
« FRUIT & VEGETABLES AND DIABETES »
With regard to fruit and vegetables, prospective studies have so far produced quite inconsistent results when evaluating the risk to develop type 2 diabetes. This might in part be due to measurement error involved in the assessment of dietary intake. One study in this issue used a quite unique approach to, at least in part, [...]
« SPECIAL WIC PROGRAM »
USA’s WIC program improves access to healthy foods in communities across the nation The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) administered by 2,200 state and local WIC agencies under the auspices of the United States Department of Agriculture serves nearly nine million qualifying mothers, children, and infants. These people are income [...]
« LATIN-AMERICAN F&V AND CUISINE:
LIFE RESOURCE AND CULTURAL HERITAGE »
Of all nutritional recommendations, one stands out. It is certain that practically all populations, communities, families and people, will improve their health and well-being, and be protected against obesity and serious chronic diseases, by consuming much more fresh and minimally processed vegetables and fruits. ‘Five a day’, while well above almost any country’s average, is [...]
« RECENT NEWS FROM EPIC »
The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) is a prospective multi-centre cohort study aimed at investigating the role of dietary, lifestyle, genetic, and metabolic factors in the development of cancer and other chronic diseases. It was initiated in 1992 with the recruitment of more than half a million participants from ten European countries, [...]
« RECENT KNOWLEDGE ON ANTIOXIDANTS »
Are food-based dietary approaches the future of disease prevention? In times of caloric over-nutrition, micronutrient intakes in Western societies mostly meet the dietary allowances. At the same time nutrition-related diseases still put a high demand on national health care systems. Despite this discrepancy between adequate micronutrient intakes on one side and the high prevalence of [...]
« F&V AT SCHOOL : A WORLDWIDE CONCERN »
The importance of increase fruit and vegetable consumption in children (and their families) Increasing fruit and vegetables consumption in children is one of the major issue in the field of nutritional education programmes worldwide and several projects have been developed with this aim. Most of the approaches have used the school as a main setting, [...]