Intended to help human, planetary health, EAT-Lancet diet too costly for 1.6 billion people
A new study estimates that the Eat-Lancet Commission reference diet — meant to improve both human and planetary health — would be unaffordable for at least 1.58 billion people, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
November 8, 2019 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: africa, billion-people, commission, lancet-commission, least-1-58, new-study, on call diets, planetary-health, reference-diet, saharan-africa, south
Geophagy: Eating soil could harm babies
Up to 80% of people in Africa, especially women, regularly eat clayey soil – this habit is known as geophagy.
April 26, 2017 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: africa, clayey-soil, diet, especially-women, habit, known-as-geophagy, on call diets, pregnancy / obstetrics, regularly-eat
Children who are given vitamin A may be less likely to develop malaria
Large study in sub-Saharan Africa suggests vitamin A’s protective effectChildren under age 5 living in sub-Saharan Africa were 54 percent less likely to develop malaria if they had been given a…
February 6, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: africa, been-given, develop-malaria, oncalldiets, percent-less, protective-effect, saharan-africa, suggests-vitamin, tropical diseases, under-age
Ape ancestors’ teeth provide glimpse into their diets and environments
Newly analyzed tooth samples from the great apes of the Miocene indicate that the same dietary specialization that allowed the apes to move from Africa to Eurasia may have led to their extinction…
May 21, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: africa, allowed-the-apes, analyzed-tooth, apes, biology / biochemistry, diet, dietary-specialization, extinction, from-the-great, miocene, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldiets, the-great, the-same
Reuters Examines Food Prices In Africa
Reuters examines food prices in Africa after the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization last week said its global Food Price Index hit a record high. “The United Nations may have sounded the alarm about soaring global food prices, but in Africa a string of bumper harvests and a changing diet means the political fallout may be more muted than to past price bumps,” the news service reports…
January 12, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: africa, alarm, bumper-harvests, changing-diet, examines-food, food-prices, news, nutrition, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, past-price, political, price
Three-Day African Food Security Forum Opens In Accra
The 26th Annual Meeting of the Food Crisis Prevention Network, “which serves as the platform for deliberation on food production and food security in Africa,” opened on Tuesday in Accra, Ghana, the Ghana News Agency reports…
December 16, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: africa, annual, annual-meeting, crisis, food-production, ghana, ghana-news, liberation-on-food, network, nutrition, on call diets, opened-on-tuesday, platform, the-platform, tuesday
Crop Experts Embrace One Of Agriculture’s Oldest Legumes As Food For People, Livestock And Astronauts
A long neglected crop with the potential to halt hunger for millions in Africa, sustain the livestock revolution underway in developing countries, rejuvenate nutrient-sapped soils, and even feed astronauts on extended space missions, is attracting scientists from around the world to Senegal this week for the Fifth World Cowpea Research Conference (27 September to 1 October 2010)…
September 28, 2010 · by webmaster · in Nutritional News · Tags: africa, conference, cowpea-research, extended-space, feed-astronauts, fifth-world, halt-hunger, long-neglected, nutrition, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, senegal, the-potential, week, world