{"id":4108,"date":"2019-10-18T11:12:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T11:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=4108"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:27","slug":"world-food-day-16th-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2019\/10\/18\/world-food-day-16th-october\/","title":{"rendered":"World Food Day (16th October)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">See the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fao.org%2Fworld-food-day&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C0b4e3855a86047e054f408d753ae6401%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637069880775075033&amp;sdata=0ticA4780LEXp01OcWF1QmG06Bd4158qn0JHkIV4dbA%3D&amp;reserved=0\">FAO official website<\/a>\u00a0for details of this year&#8217;s theme on healthy diet.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unicef.org.uk%2Fpress-releases%2Fpoor-diets-damaging-childrens-health-warns-unicef%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C0b4e3855a86047e054f408d753ae6401%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637069880775085027&amp;sdata=qx6p2MD1iDaRHTRB%2B2%2BFFtMuhWDjvOzxhpujB3420PA%3D&amp;reserved=0\">UNICEF The State of the World\u2019s Children 2019: Children, food and nutrition\u00a0<\/a>T<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">hey refer to children in the UK as being in a swamp of obesity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><br \/>\nOECD has recently published a report\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oecd.org%2Fhealth%2Fthe-heavy-burden-of-obesity-67450d67-en.htm&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C0b4e3855a86047e054f408d753ae6401%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637069880775085027&amp;sdata=xcPedA%2Fo1AxGqdkTg2RjhW3hWxJCkT8w5zMRY4jue%2BM%3D&amp;reserved=0\">The Heavy Burden of Obesity The Economics of Prevention<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">Using microsimulation modelling, this book analyses the burden of obesity in 52 countries (including OECD, European Union and G20 countries), showing how being overweight reduces life expectancy, increases healthcare costs, decreases workers&#8217; productivity and lowers GDP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">Do people eat junk food because it is cheaper?\u00a0 On this topic:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">A systematic review of literature published in 2013:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbmjopen.bmj.com%2Fcontent%2F3%2F12%2Fe004277&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C0b4e3855a86047e054f408d753ae6401%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637069880775095020&amp;sdata=JQRgJYq9PbIls9uJR1x6mCaEmZpTRWpS99E3MWcE5fg%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Do healthier foods and diet patterns cost more than less healthy options? A systematic review and meta-analysis\u00a0<\/a>of 27 studies from 10 countries provides some evidence especially in terms of meat that healthier options were more expensive.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">Longitudinal study in UK (<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0109343\">The Growing Price Gap between More and Less Healthy Foods<\/a>: Analysis of a Novel Longitudinal UK Dataset: N. R. V.. Jones, Annalijn I. Conklin, M. Suhrcke,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">P. Monsivais)\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">found prices of healthy foods rose quicker than <span style=\"color: #1f497d\">un<\/span>health<span style=\"color: #1f497d\">y food across<\/span>\u00a094 items\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">In 201<a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cedar.iph.cam.ac.uk%2Fthe-price-of-prevention-12-12-17%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C0b4e3855a86047e054f408d753ae6401%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637069880775105019&amp;sdata=BL%2Bq4LLcvTP3nfeB7koHCqSWlmY%2BunY6%2BR5MFBhFalE%3D&amp;reserved=0\">7 the CEDAR research centre\u00a0 found that cost of meeting the recommended dietary intake<\/a>\u00a0for fruit and vegetables, oily fish, sugars, fat, saturated fat and salt\u00a0 was between 3% and 17% more expensive than other alternatives<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">However there have been some disputes about metrics used to calculate costs .<a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiea.org.uk%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F03%2FCheap-as-Chips-PDF.pdf&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C0b4e3855a86047e054f408d753ae6401%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C637069880775105019&amp;sdata=sc3Dax5ZRU4KgyDsRLN4qT25cGX2wl0edpSJOJWXx9Q%3D&amp;reserved=0\">\u00a0This IEA discussion\u00a0<\/a>paper from 2017 found the margins were small. But as others have discussed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheconversation.com%2Fmyth-healthy-food-is-more-expensive-than-unhealthy-food-101213&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C0b4e3855a86047e054f408d753ae6401%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637069880775105019&amp;sdata=T9Mzd5DZKg%2FHUdIilotDK0lWMorESOedMOU6ZQ5Iubk%3D&amp;reserved=0\">factors such as time and access to healthy food outlets can also be key.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">A government report <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fobesity-and-the-environment-briefing-regulating-the-growth-of-fast-food-outlets&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C0b4e3855a86047e054f408d753ae6401%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637069880775115011&amp;sdata=SMeS5p%2Bs6lUYpHIMqrEkB2LtTTht2x9dNmTf4Rpb3R8%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Obesity and the environment<\/a>\u00a0found a link between the number of fast food outlets, child obesity and socio-economic background. Poorer people were likely to live near more fast-food shops and to be overweight.\u00a0 It has an interesting map from 2016 showing the geographical spread of fast food outlets.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See the\u00a0FAO official website\u00a0for details of this year&#8217;s theme on healthy diet. UNICEF The State of the World\u2019s Children 2019: Children, food and nutrition\u00a0They refer to children in the UK as being in a swamp of obesity. OECD has recently published a report\u00a0The Heavy Burden of Obesity The Economics of Prevention Using microsimulation modelling, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,15],"tags":[235,564,341,484],"class_list":["post-4108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-education","category-sociology","tag-economics","tag-fast-food","tag-food","tag-obesity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4109,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions\/4109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}