Food and hunger: the dead of junk food and malnutrition

[Christophe]

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In English unfortunately, a parallel between the food industry and drug traffickers, I like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=mu8QthlZ6hY

[gegyx]

When China Awakens ...

http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/monde/20 ... china.html

[Christophe]

A few figures about lack of access to drinking water

[Christophe]

Documentary by Corinne Gouget: the food genocide

[Christophe]

Another documentary on junk food: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmnSApLU-Jw

Planet - We are what we eat (full report)

"Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine your food." (Hippocrates). Hippocrates lays the foundations of modern medicine. According to him, the human body has an innate capacity for self-healing. The "Hippocratic Oath" is still taken by doctors today. However, our approach to disease has changed since the days of Hippocrates. Doctors these days have very little nutrition training, if at all. The principle of modern medicine is rather "To each disease its medicine". And the pharmaceutical industry wants to keep this policy.

[Christophe]

[Christophe]

5 terrifying facts about the alarming state of the global food industry

We consume less than a third of the food we produce. The world currently produces enough to supply around 2.700 calories to every human being, yet the planet as a whole is undernourished. One third of the food produced is used as livestock feed and the third third is wasted. In addition, 5% of the food produced is used to produce biofuels.

2. The water shortage becomes catastrophic. About one fifth of the planet, or 1,7 billion people, live in areas where water is scarce, in short supply, or limited. 1,6 billion people live in countries with insufficient water infrastructure. Water consumption has grown at twice the rate of population growth and the water crisis is expected to worsen. By 2030, demand is expected to exceed supply by 40%, and nearly half of the world is expected to experience water shortages.


3. Our obsession with meat costs the planet dearly. In the past, meat was a luxury, but it has become commonplace. As a result, livestock areas now represent 30% of the planet's available land, and the meat industry generates around 15% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Cattle farming for meat and milk is the biggest culprit, with 10% of total emissions.

4. Obesity has become a global phenomenon. 15% of the world's population is no longer just overweight, but obese, and the rate is even close to 25% in rich countries. Worse, in the United States and Mexico, a third of the population suffers from this disease. If we combine overweight and obesity, we find that 70% of the population in the United States is either overweight or obese, and that in Europe and Latin America, this proportion reaches 60%.


5. We are on the verge of a food crisis. In the past 5-10 years, the world has consumed more food than it has produced. World grain reserves have never been lower since 1974 and prices are reaching record levels. The world is increasingly vulnerable to the effects of a poor harvest or unexpected drought that could leave large parts of the world hungry

http://www.express.be/business/fr/econo ... 197317.htm

[Christophe]

The nutritional logo Nutri score happens but it is not, yet (?), compulsory ...

http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/ ... 50684.html

He makes a shy entry into the supermarket shelves. Three months after the signing of a ministerial decree on October 31, 2017, and after the approval of the European Commission, thirty-three agri-food and mass retail companies announced on Thursday, February 15, that they will Nutri-Score on their products. If this remains optional, several companies have already started to adopt it: Danone, Bonduelle, McCain, Fleury-Michon, Auchan, Casino, Intermarché, Leclerc and others.

Recommended by the State and the scientific community, the Nutri-Score is affixed to the front of the packaging. It makes it possible to assess, using a color scale and letters going from A to E, the nutritional qualities of manufactured products (cereals, pizzas, cookies, dairy desserts, ready meals, canned foods, etc.), compare them and identify the most balanced, the least fatty, the least sweet and the least salty.

Doctors, representatives of the ministry and industrialists were gathered this February 15 by Public Health France, "a historic moment", for François Bourdillon, director general of the health agency, which will launch in May a television campaign and provide tools on his site. The soap opera has been going on for years. Professor Serge Hercberg, who chairs the National Health and Nutrition Program (PNNS), four years ago gave former health minister Marisol Touraine a report on nutritional health policy, whose logo was one of the flagship measures. Four years during which many manufacturers have fought such a measure.

Recognized by the World Health Organization, which devoted its Panorama review to it in December 2017, the health benefits of Nutri-Score have been scientifically validated by more than twenty international publications. Jérôme Salomon, new Director General of Health, recalled that food represents ...

It should be taken advantage of to also introduce the environmental impact (at least CO2) ... right? And there it will hurt ... very bad ...

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[Christophe]

We suspected a little ... a study "confirms" it:

https://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-servi ... 154038.php

First large-scale study on the links between industrial dishes and cancer

An eight-year study of 105.000 French people suggests a relationship between "ultra-processed" foods and an increased risk of cancer.

This is a study of unprecedented scale that has been carried out jointly by researchers from Inserm, INRA and the University of Paris 13, under the leadership of Mathilde Touvier, head of the cancer nutrition unit, in Paris 13 Conducted with more than 100.000 participants, all volunteers, it suggests a link between the consumption of industrial dishes and the risk of cancer.

According to the authors of this study, published this Wednesday in the British medical journal (BMJ): "A 10% increase in the proportion of ultra-processed foods in the diet has been shown to be associated with a more than 10% increase in the risk of developing cancer" in general. Or even more, in the case of breast cancer.

"The same trend was observed for colorectal cancer, but the number of cases did not reach a sufficient statistical threshold to finally be taken into account", specifies to "Les Echos", Bernard Srour, co-first author of the scientific article. In total, over the duration of the study, 2.228 cases of cancer were diagnosed and validated.

3.300 foods listed

To carry out this statistical study, the researchers relied on the Nutrinet-Santé platform. Developed in 2009, it is the first cohort (a group of subjects followed for several years in the context of research) online. The 104.980 participants, all volunteers, filled out a description form, then informed three times, every six months, what they had eaten during the last 24 hours.

"We have been following the first participants in the study for eight years, specifies Bernard Srour". Above all, the strength of Nutrinet-Santé is its benchmark. It thus lists 3.300 foods, allowing participants to be very precise about what they ate.

A causal link to prove
"Our study only" suggests "a link between ultra-processed foods (industrial breads and brioches, chocolate bars, aperitif cookies, sodas and flavored sugary drinks, poultry and fish nuggets, instant soups. .. Editor's note), because this must be confirmed by other mechanistic, animal or in vitro studies ”, specifies Bernard Srour.

These results can be considered as a first line of investigation
But, already, "these results can be considered as a first line of investigation in this area", assure the researchers. However, it will be up to basic research to establish the precise cause and effect link.

For its part, the research team will examine the incidence of food additives contained in each industrial dish. Thanks to Nutrinet-Santé, researchers have information from the brands concerned and will try to study a link between the accumulation of added products and their impact (or not) on cancer.