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During the years of his leadership of the Organization UN Food and Agriculture (FAO), Brazilian José Graziano da Silva I said it “At some point there will be
During the years of his leadership of the Organization UN Food and Agriculture (FAO), Brazilian José Graziano da Silva I said it “At some point there will be more obesity than hunger in the world.” and today you need to specify: “is there some more” and it “makes the human race worse.”
In an interview with EFE at the Casa Encendida in Madrid, where the former Minister of Food Security and the Fight against Hunger of Brazil launches the book “Josue de Castro and the Diplomacy of Hunger” on Tuesday. points to Ultra-processed foods are a major culprit in obesity, which is as much of a concern as hunger today.
A obesity that “1000 million people in the world already suffer“-against “735 million hungry people”– and whose consequences are “generational.”
The expert analyzes.
Obesity has as severe or even worse impacts (than hunger), especially on children and women of reproductive age, throughout life, across generations. It has been proven that children of obese parents carry this tendency, this is a deterioration in human condition. race by type of nutrition.
José Graziano da Silva, former Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) | Photo: EFE.
Changing diets of the world’s population, which “increased during the pandemic” when “fresh food could not be available at fairs or markets” and at a time when “processed foods, and especially highly processed foods, have become much cheaper,” which, coupled with inflationary increases in fresh foods, is helping to reverse the trend.
“We are turning more and more to processed and ultra-processed foods and less and less to fresh food.”something that is making diets worse all over the world because there is a pattern, everyone eats the sameyou go anywhere in the world and have breakfast, lunch and dinner the same, high concentration of ultra-processed foods, pasta and sausages, which leads to obesity.”He says.
“It is very important to understand that nutrition is not an individual or family problem. “The state must take responsibility”– says da Silva, coordinator of the Fome Zero program of the first government of President Lula da Silva, with whom Brazil left the FAO world hunger map.
A Brazilian claims that childhood obesity is not the fault of the family, but of the fact that “There is an absurd amount of potatoes, sweets, etc. at school,” buy” or what, when they are sitting in front of the TV “There is propaganda with pictures that attracts them” to eat these products.
Therefore, we must “take” food from the “private sphere and give it to the public”:
We have to make a qualitative leap for the state to be more actively involved in this, because it is already clear and proven that eating habits are formed over at least a period of 3 months to a year and are maintained.
“The younger it is, the easier it is to change, So it’s best to do this at school, during school snacks, because the results will be different if the school has fresh food, balanced meals or just handing out processed foods,” he adds.
The Brazilian assures that in the world produce “enough” amounts of food, especially in staple grains such as rice, soybeans or wheat, to feed the entire populationalthough it does state that there are “shortages” of some fresh foods such as legumes, fruits or vegetables.
Despite this, he notes that the problem of food and poverty is not food shortages, but “speculation” in prices and supplies.
For this reason, he considers progress in eradicating poverty to be “very insufficient”, since in 2030, if forecasts come true, “There will still be 600 million hungry people in the world.”
“Today we have 735 million, we are going to go down to 600, but the target for 2030 was zero, this is very insufficient,” he concludes.
EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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