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
« LATIN-AMERICAN F&V AND CUISINE:
LIFE RESOURCE AND CULTURAL HERITAGE »
Of all nutritional recommendations, one stands out. It is certain that practically all populations, communities, families and people, will improve their health and well-being, and be protected against obesity and serious chronic diseases, by consuming much more fresh and minimally processed vegetables and fruits. ‘Five a day’, while well above almost any country’s average, is [...]
« RECENT NEWS FROM EPIC »
The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) is a prospective multi-centre cohort study aimed at investigating the role of dietary, lifestyle, genetic, and metabolic factors in the development of cancer and other chronic diseases. It was initiated in 1992 with the recruitment of more than half a million participants from ten European countries, [...]
« RECENT KNOWLEDGE ON ANTIOXIDANTS »
Are food-based dietary approaches the future of disease prevention? In times of caloric over-nutrition, micronutrient intakes in Western societies mostly meet the dietary allowances. At the same time nutrition-related diseases still put a high demand on national health care systems. Despite this discrepancy between adequate micronutrient intakes on one side and the high prevalence of [...]
« F&V AT SCHOOL : A WORLDWIDE CONCERN »
The importance of increase fruit and vegetable consumption in children (and their families) Increasing fruit and vegetables consumption in children is one of the major issue in the field of nutritional education programmes worldwide and several projects have been developed with this aim. Most of the approaches have used the school as a main setting, [...]
« NEW FRUIT & VEGETABLE LITERATURE REVIEWS »
Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH) periodically conducts a review of the literature on a variety of topics relating to fruits and vegetables (FV) to aid practitioners, policy makers, and other researchers in our collective effort to increase FV consumption. Three recent reviews were conducted and are outlined in this newsletter. The first was a [...]
« TRENDS IN FOOD INTAKE »
Over the 1980-2012 period we have had vast shifts in how people eat throughout the world. Diets in the 1970’s began to shift toward excess processed foods, increased away from home intake and greater use of edible oils and sugar-sweetened beverages. We can view diets on many levels from the actual foods consumed to the [...]
« DIETARY BEHAVIOUR AND FRUIT & VEGETABLE CONSUMPTION »
A useful guiding principle in promoting behaviour change to improve metabolic health is to ‘Make the Healthy Option the Easy Option’. However, changing food behaviour habits is not easy, particularly if people feel they have to forego something they perceive to be very pleasant for something they initially think of as less pleasant. Moreover, healthy [...]