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
« WIC : Latest advances »
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) has just celebrated forty years of public health nutrition success since its bipartisan Congressional founding in 1974. A much studied program, WIC has repeatedly demonstrated the effective impacts on healthy birth outcomes and children’s preparedness for school. The science based review of the WIC [...]
« Recent studies on cancer and diet »
Based on impressive evidence, the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) and the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) recommends eating more vegetables and fruits (V&F) as part of a healthy diet to prevent various types of cancer. Evidence on the role of diet in cancer prognosis is still limited but there are three recent studies [...]
« Effective behavioral strategies for children food choices »
Establishing positive eating habits from early childhood is not easy in a world in which negative food habit development is largely favoured by the environment. This fi eld has certainly grown during the last few years, however more data is still necessary in order to get positive and permanent eating habits. This issue welcomes three [...]
« An updating on Antioxidants and F&V consumption »
Ongoing studies continue to establish consensual relationships between diet and health with particular emphasis on the benefi cial role of fruits and vegetables (F&V) on decreasing risks of diverse pathologies (cancers, osteoporosis, glaucoma and obesity-related physiopathology) together with improvements of biological functions (vascular response, blood pressure, grip strength, immunity). F&V have been sequentially seen as [...]
« Food store environment in USA »
On the importance of community research… The basic rules of healthy diets are now reasonably well established. They are currently more and more promoted through improving consistent nutrition-health policies increasingly implemented throughout the world; and consistently again they fail to reach the population subgroups who would benefi t the most from following these basic rules. [...]
« Advertising for fruit and vegetables is globally inexistent »
Marketing of Foods: Opportunities for Fruits & Vegetables The foods that are advertised are certainly not the foods that people should eat; rather they are the “noncore” foods manufactured and marketed by large food companies. This sobering conclusion is evident in all three papers in this special issue. In the fi rst paper, Watson, Pettigrew, [...]
« Improving school meal: Effi cient way to increase F&V consumption in children »
Is it still possible to increase the fruits and vegetables consumption of children? It has been almost 15 years since the WHO highlighted the low levels of fruit and vegetable (F&V) consumption in children. In 2003, only 17.6% of all European 11-year-olds attained the recommended 400 g/day. In 2004, a new strategy was adopted that [...]