Food and nutrition
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Abstract
Nutrition paradigms have shifted in the last few decades, and now there is an urgent need for the policy discourse and public health practice to catch up. Effective public health policy and practice responses to nutrition depend on an accurate understanding of the problem of ‘malnutrition’, its implications for human health, and its underlying causes. They also depend on the political economy of nutrition policy—including policies relating to food environments and the global food system. The aim of this chapter is to map out the public health dimensions of food and nutrition problems that increasingly assail the world as well as to provide some guidance on the population-based interventions necessary for diet-related diseases to be contained.