Congress of the World Public Health Nutrition Association with
Abrasco (the Brazilian Association of Collective Health)
to be held in Rio de Janeiro, 27-30 April 2012
Countdown to our Rio2012 congress begins now
Spirals forms from all over the world inspire the dedicated teams who are working on our Rio2012 congress. The final countdown begins right now
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The Rio2012 team reports. Happy New Year! In just four months' time, our Rio2012 congress begins in Rio de Janeiro. Its vision is of reliable knowledge shaped into rational policies, and effective, sustainable and equitable actions, for the benefit of humankind and also of the living and physical worlds. Our original estimates of the number of participants at the congress have been exceeded, again and again. Breaking news is that we have accepted almost 1,500 abstracts. As you can see, further down in this home page and in previous issues, we are welcoming distinguished speakers from all over the world.
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International food corporations
Italy: Home of pasta, sauces, biscotti
and Big Snacks, all in a family
Views on the Barilla Group and Italian Big Snacks: Marion Nestle (left); Chiara Bodini and Italian colleagues (left, centre), Carlos Monteiro (right)
Fabio Gomes reports Association member Marion Nestle was one of the Association members invited to participate in the Barilla Third International Forum on Food and Nutrition, held between 30 November and 1 December in Milan. She felt she was largely there 'for decoration'. Why are the transnationals, and now also giant national and international Big Food and Big Snack companies like Barilla, moving into public health nutrition? We asked Association member and regular World Nutrition contributor Carlos Monteiro (right, above) what he felt. We also asked Bologna-based Chiara Bodini (centre picture, left, with Italian colleagues from the People's Health Movement) what she felt Barilla and its Forum are contributing to Italian and European public health.
Every month we publish a news story by Association member (also Rio 2012
programme committee member and membership secretary) Fabio Gomes.
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Prevention of cancer. ICCC4 congress, Seoul
Korea: Can ancient societies
retain their traditional values?
ICCC president Simon Sutcliffe and Jon Kerner of the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, in Seoul, left, right. Centre is kimche, Korean 'wonder food'
Access report on the UN summit's Political Declaration hereAccess pdf of the WN commentary on the summit by Philip James here
Access pdf of the WN series of commentaries on the summit here
Geoffrey Cannon reports: One outcome of last September's UN High-Level meeting on the prevention of non-communicable diseases (let's call them chronic diseases) (1) was the fourth International Cancer Control Congress (ICCC4), held in Seoul, Korea. This was the first world-level summit of cancer prevention and control experts and policy-makers since the UN New York meeting. It made prevention of cancer, in the sense of stopping cancer before it starts (also known as 'primordial prevention'), the keynote theme of the congress. International president was Simon Sutcliffe (left, above), chair of the national Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC). I was there as the initial keynote plenary speaker, together with CPAC executive Jon Kerner (right, above) and Association member Fabio Gomes in his position as senior researcher at the Brazilian National Cancer Institute (INCA). Fabio and I did some practical research on the fabled Korean 'wonder food' kimche (which begins with types of cabbage, centre, above) in Seoul's downtown traditional restaurants and street food markets.
Members' news
From this month we publish regular stories by Association members with
news of their work, journeys, idea or initiatives. Please see Box 1, inside
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Congress of the World Public Health Nutrition Association with
Abrasco (the Brazilian Association of Collective Health)
to be held in Rio de Janeiro, 27-30 April 2012
Register now! Our fourth line-up of speakers
Left to right: Corinna Hawkes, Stuart Gillespie, Barbara Burlingame, Renato Maluf, Chunming Chen, Edgard Rebouças: six more speakers at Rio2012
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This month we feature six more confirmed speaker-participants at our Rio2012 congress, held in partnership with the Brazilian national public health organisation Abrasco. Three are women, and three are men. Two are British, two are Brazilian, one is originally from New Zealand, and one is from China. All have experience in key positions in UN and allied international agencies or non-governmental organisations. All have special interest in and knowledge of national and international food and nutrition policy, including the social, political, economic or technical forces that drive food systems and supplies.
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Members
Profiles
From left: Joseph Ashong, Rosangela Pereira, Michael Nelson, Paul Aryee,
Sangita Sharma, Trias Mahmudiono: members from the main continents
The membership team reports: Here we introduce six members whose profiles can be accessed here and on the inside page. This month's members are, originally or now, from Africa, North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Asia-Pacific. Joseph Ashong, left, is from Ghana, currently studying in upstate New York. Rosangela Pereira, next, is from Rio de Janeiro, having worked in Africa. Michael Nelson, next, began in Canada and the US and is now in the UK. Paul Aryee, third from right, like Joseph Ashong comes from Ghana. Sangita Sharma, second from right, is a UK citizen, now working in Canada. Trias Mahmudiono, right, who has professional experience in Australia, is from Indonesia.
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This year
Our story to come
You see them here, there and everywhere. More spiral shapes from all over
the world, looking forward to our Rio2012 congress, a high point of this year
The editorial team writes. Feliz ano novo, as the Brazilians say. Happy new year. And best this year we suggest, is to let go of prosperity in the money sense, and focus more on being happy with what we've got – or less of it. Let's all feel we need less. There's more to wealth than money. What we need is less growth, in the exploitative sense. This month's home page features the spiral shapes that are the symbol of our Rio2012 congress this coming April. Here above are yet more, from our collections made in recent visits to Seoul (left), Valparaiso (second left, and right), and an unidentified location (second right). Members of the joint Association/ Abrasco executive committee who met in Rio in October will remember the mysterious image in the middle, to be seen in the windows of the final day's conference room.
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Previous years
Your permanent resource
WN commentaries: Michael Latham on vitamin A; Carlos Monteiro on
ultra-processing; the DOHaD philosophy; and tributes to Wangari Maathai
This month's World Nutrition commentary is a celebration of WN itself, since its first issue published in May 2010, to date. In that first month we featured a searing commentary questioning the value of universal vitamin A supplementation written by Michael Latham with support from Ted Greiner. Later that year we published a rejoinder from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health team led by Al Sommer, who advocate universal supplementation. We received many letters from all over the world, almost all of which supported Michael Latham's position. In November we began the series of commentaries by Carlos Monteiro on ultra-processing, which altogether now have been accessed over 75,000 times. Early this year the main commentary summarised the profoundly important thinking of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) group. This, we know, influenced the thinking of the September UN High-Level Meeting on prevention and control of chronic diseases. And most recently we published a series of eulogies for Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai Plenty to be proud of, we reckon.
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