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
« NEW IDEAS TO INCREASE F&V CONSUMPTION »
The health benefits of a high Fruit and Vegetable (F&V) intake are beyond doubt. However, actual consumption of this food group is insufficient in large parts of the population, resulting in calls for interventions to increase it. In this edition of the IFAVA Newsletter, three attempts to do so are presented, focusing on different factors [...]
« INCREASING F&V CONSUMPTION TO REDUCE ENERGY INTAKE »
Increased consumption of Fruits and Vegetables (F&V) can help to facilitate weight loss; however, several clinical trials testing this effect have reported a decline in intake over time. A sustained increase may be more likely if people are taught specific strategies for incorporating more F&V into their diets to manage their hunger and eat fewer [...]
« EATING FOR PREGNANCY »
Over the last several decades, evidence indicates that many strategies to prevent the two leading causes of infant mortality in the developed world - birth defects and prematurity/low birthweight - have their greatest influence when commenced before a pregnancy is conceived. The traditional prenatal care pathway to preventing poor pregnancy outcomes is often inadequate because [...]
« FRUIT & VEGETABLES AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION »
Cognitive impairment is a broad term to describe a wide variety of impaired brain function relating to the ability of a person to think, concentrate, reason and remember. The most severe degree of cognitive impairment is dementia. Currently, no pharmaceutical treatment is available to cure dementia. Prevention is however a way to reduce the burden [...]
« FRUITS AND VEGETABLE CONSUMPTION DETERMINANTS AMONG ADOLESCENTS »
Adolescents in a complex world: what to eat and why? Adolescents have to engage with a social environment of increasing complexity and diversity. The agents in this engagement include family and peer relationships, the internet, television, mobile phones, the media and electronic gadgetry. All of these provide a flow of information that influences adolescents’ perception [...]
« LIVING HEALTHY AND FEELING BETTER »
How far do we have to go back? As the articles in this newsletter highlight, we are now confronting challenges affecting all our different sectors in the food chain, in nutrition and health. In the more affluent parts of Europe, life expectancy is going up by three months every year - reflecting not only how [...]
THE GAP BETWEEN RECOMMENDATIONS AND REAL CONSUMPTION (IN EUROPE)
An adequate consumption of Fruits and Vegetables (F&V) is an important component of a healthy diet to prevent major non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, gastrointestinal cancer and obesity. The recently published European nutrition and health report 2009 indicates that a minimum daily intake of 400g of F&V (excluding potatoes and other starchy tubers), [...]