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Expanding the Scope of Health Care: A roundtable discussion on nutrition’s impact on health, featuring World Food Program Senior Nutrition Advisor Martin Bloem
About two billion people suffer from malnutrition in both developed and developing countries, with another two billion suffering from hidden hunger. We need new approaches to this crisis, as awareness grows of the impact of nutrition on health. Martin Bloem, Senior Nutrition Advisor with the World Food Programme, discussed these issues with Ashoka Changemakers and other nutrition experts.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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Fat profits: how the food industry cashed in on obesity
Ever since definitions of healthy bodyweight changed in the 1990s, the world has feared an obesity epidemic. But the food giants accused of making us fat are also profiting from the slimming industry
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- Health Care
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A nation of the hungry and obese
South Africa is heading for a health disaster: more than half the population is living in hunger or at risk of it, while a large percentage of the rest are obese or at risk of developing poor lifestyle-related illnesses.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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East Africa: The Superfood With the Potential to Save Hundreds and Thousands of Children’s Lives
Imagine a food that is free, nutritious and has the potential to save thousands of children's lives.
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- Health Care
- Region
- North Africa & Near East
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Seeking Scalable Solutions to Promote Nutrient-Rich Food: Insights from young innovators in Ashoka Changemakers’ Nutrients for All idea exchange
To have widespread, affordable access to nutrient-rich food, we need to work with the food industry, and take advantage of advances in science and technology. But how can this work in practice? Ashoka Changemakers and Thought for Food hosted an idea exchange with several young innovators, who discussed their work and the challenges of making nutritious food widely available.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Battle of the bulge
As waistlines grow, so does the fight against junk food
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- Health Care
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- nutrition
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Corporations and the fight against hunger: why CSR won’t do
There is an opportunity for the private sector to lead in tackling chronic malnutrition, but seeing it as corporate social responsibility or charity is damaging.
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- Health Care
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Food Fortification in the Midst of Political Turmoil: Can a functioning “nutrient economy” become part of the solution in Egypt?
Political turmoil can dictate the amount and quality of nutrients accessible to everyday people. And coverage of the Arab Spring has brought to light the dire circumstances still faced by many in the Middle East and North Africa. In Egypt, where do nutrients come into the conversation for the country moving forward? Can a functioning “nutrient economy” become part of the solution?
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- nutrition