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
« FRUIT & VEGETABLES AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION »
Cognitive impairment is a broad term to describe a wide variety of impaired brain function relating to the ability of a person to think, concentrate, reason and remember. The most severe degree of cognitive impairment is dementia. Currently, no pharmaceutical treatment is available to cure dementia. Prevention is however a way to reduce the burden [...]
« FRUITS AND VEGETABLE CONSUMPTION DETERMINANTS AMONG ADOLESCENTS »
Adolescents in a complex world: what to eat and why? Adolescents have to engage with a social environment of increasing complexity and diversity. The agents in this engagement include family and peer relationships, the internet, television, mobile phones, the media and electronic gadgetry. All of these provide a flow of information that influences adolescents’ perception [...]
« LIVING HEALTHY AND FEELING BETTER »
How far do we have to go back? As the articles in this newsletter highlight, we are now confronting challenges affecting all our different sectors in the food chain, in nutrition and health. In the more affluent parts of Europe, life expectancy is going up by three months every year - reflecting not only how [...]
THE GAP BETWEEN RECOMMENDATIONS AND REAL CONSUMPTION (IN EUROPE)
An adequate consumption of Fruits and Vegetables (F&V) is an important component of a healthy diet to prevent major non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, gastrointestinal cancer and obesity. The recently published European nutrition and health report 2009 indicates that a minimum daily intake of 400g of F&V (excluding potatoes and other starchy tubers), [...]
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES’ PERCEPTION
For several years, most governments have been announcing policies exhorting people to eat a healthy diet (around the iconic images of fruits and vegetables (F&V)) and to undertake more physical activity in order to help prevent a range of diseases. Eat less unhealthy foods and move more. Almost everyone agrees that it makes sense; no [...]
HEALTH BENEFITS OF ALLIUM VEGETABLES INTAKES
ANNOUNCEMENT 5-7 May 2010 - Brussels - Belgium Social and Health Benefits of Balanced Diet: The role of Fruit and Vegetables CONFERENCE ORGANISED BY APRIFEL WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION AND THE FRENCH MINISTRY OF FOOD, AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES The 6th edition of Egea Conference will be held in Brussels from May 5 [...]
“Children nutritionnal needs: sChool meals or paCked lunChes?”
The need to increase F&V availability at school Low consumption of fruit and vegetables (F&V) is a worrying phenomenon among children. According to the Pro-Children study financed by the European Commission, in average only 17.6% of the 11-year-old children reach the WHO minimum recommended level of 400g/day. One of the reasons of low F&V consumption [...]