World Nutrition

ISSN 2041-9775
Volume 2, Number 6, June 2011

Journal of the World Public Health Nutrition Association
Published monthly at www.wphna.org

Editorial, and Commentary

Claudio Schuftan
Food prices, riots, and wars

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro
The cost and the value of meals

Commentary

Shiriki Kumanyika, Christina Economos
Prevention of obesity: Finding the best evidence





World Nutrition

Volume 2, Number 6, June 2011

Journal of the World Public Health Nutrition Association
Published in the UK monthly at www.wphna.org

The Association is an affiliated body of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences For membership and for other contributions, news, columns and services, go to: www.wphna.org

Publishing and editorial Board

Barrie Margetts (Chair),
Geoffrey Cannon, Ted Greiner, Roger Hughes, Urban Jonsson,
Harriet Kuhnlein, Shiriki Kumanyika, Carlos Monteiro, Walter Willett

Editor

Geoffrey Cannon

Assistant editors

Reggie Annan
Fabio Gomes

Web manager

Martin Evans, Pewter

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World Nutrition

Volume 2, Number 6, June 2011

Journal of the World Public Health Nutrition Association
Published monthly at www.wphna.org

The Association is an affiliated body of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences For membership and for other contributions, news, columns and services, go to: www.wphna.org

Contents



Our cover picture is Liberty Leading the People, by Eugène Delacroix
As every nutrition student knows, the French Revolution began with food riots

 

Cover, Masthead, Contents  
pdf  

Editorial

247-253

The shape of wars to come  
pdf  

Commentary

254-270

Claudio Schuftan

 
Food price crises: 'Free markets' cause inequity and hunger  
pdf  

Commentary

271-282

Carlos Monteiro: The big issue is ultra-processing

 
The cost and the value of meals

 

pdf  

Commentary: update of the 2010 Institute of Medicine report

283-299

Shiriki Kumanyika, Christina Economos

 
Prevention of obesity: Finding the best evidence

 

pdf  


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World Nutrition


SPECIAL RIO 2012 ISSUE

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Editorial
Rio2012. What next

Who do we
think we are?


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Philip James
Rio2012. What next

Coming to
judgement



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Rio2012. What next

Renato Maluf
Fabio Gomes, Inês Rugani
Sabrina Ionata, Asma Ali
Christina Black, Roger Hughes
Nahla Hwalla, Sarah Kehoe
Shiriki Kumanyika,Mark Lawrence
Carlos Monteiro, J-C Moubarac
Isabela Sattamini, Boyd Swinburn


Looking into
the future, what
do we see?



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Claudio Schuftan
Urban Jonsson

Competence:
who for, and
where from ?




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COLUMNS

Geoffrey Cannon

From Barcelona, London and Rio

My hero Claudia Roden
My hero Christopher Hitchens

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Claudio Schuftan

From Ho Chi Minh City and Rio

I am the honorary consul
What I bring to Rio2012

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Reggie Annan

From Kumasi and Rio

More vision for Rio2012
Africa's triple burden

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JUNE ISSUE

Out on 1 JUNE

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Carlos Monteiro
Geoffrey Cannon

Ultra-processing
is back !

Available on 1 June
(Postponed from this month)


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Building our
capacity




Hélène Delisle

Available on 1 June