The Global Fruit & Veg Newsletter
The Global Fruit & Veg Newsletter est une revue mensuelle gratuite en anglais destinée aux professionnels de la santé dans lequel des chercheurs du monde entier contribuent à la rédaction d’articles. Aprifel vous offre l’accès à la base de données complète des revues Global Fruit & Veg depuis 2006 en format PDF. Une newsletter en français est également disponible.
The Global Fruit and Veg Newsletter (GFVN) is a monthly newsletter published since 2006 * throughout more than 30 countries involved in the promotion of the consumption of fruit and vegetables 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, F&V professionals, consumer associations, journalists and general public). *GFVN replaces the Ifava Scientific Newsletter
FIGHT AGAINST OBESITY
The importance of fruit and vegetable intake in a new context This month the focus is on the value of fruit and vegetable intake when combatting the remarkable increase in the global burden of obesity. This epidemic is already overwhelming lower income countries as well as the more affluent with escalating rates of diabetes and [...]
Importance of involving children in the different steps of meal preparation
Children’s nutrition education is one of the main tools to improving their health. However, what is and what is not nutrition education is still quite confused. Nutrition education is not teaching children the nutrient content of different foods. Children don’t have control of their behaviours to let this issue drive their decisions, and overall in [...]
Healthy food and their anti-inflammatory properties
Foods that fight inflammation Doctors are learning that one of the best ways to quell inflammation lies not in the medicine cabinet, but in the refrigerator. Your immune system becomes activated when your body recognizes anything that is foreign - such as an invading microbe, plant pollen, or chemical. This often triggers a process called [...]
Type 2 diabetes: importance of F&V
Fresh fruit and vegetables – underused option for prevention and “treatment” of type 2 diabetes Three summary reports in this issue emphasize the benefit of fresh fruit and vegetables (F&V) in the prevention and “treatment” of type 2 diabetes. Franziska Jannasch and co-authors summarize the main results of their systematic review and meta-analysis on different [...]
F&V to prevent allergy and asthma
Numerous environmental factors can be instrumental in the onset of allergic conditions such as asthma or eczema. While tobacco and other pollutants are well-identified factors, the role of food is not as well known. The first article is from a recent review conducted by an Australian team detailing literature on the consumption of fruit and [...]
F&V availability at home
Whether the quality and amount of food intake are a private matter or a Public health issue may be debated. It is part of anyone’s freedom to eat what and when he wishes to do so... in theory. There are several reasons why this issue has limits: The natural history of nutrition teaches us that [...]
Influence of F&V school
Schools should be in the front line in health promotion Schools seem to be ideal settings to form children’s behaviour. They reach most children for a number of years at a critical age when habits are still being evolved. They are the places where children spend most of their time in contact with qualified personnel [...]