Healthy Agriculture, Healthy Nutrition, Healthy People

A. P. Simopoulos

• Publisher: S. Karger
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9783805597807
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Public Health, Administration & Care

Human health depends to a great extent on our nutritionally balanced food supply consistent with the evolutionary aspects of diet to which genes were originally programmed to respond. The publication at hand contains selected papers from the Inaugural Conference Healthy Agriculture, Healthy Nutrition, Healthy People of the World Council on Genetics, Nutrition and Fitness for Health held at Ancient Olympia, Greece, in October 2010. Topics include the relationship between architecture and agriculture, food production systems and urban agriculture, as well as physical activity, nutrition, genetic variation and other determinants of human health. The papers clearly show that optimal nutrition is consistent with ecologically and economically sustainable agriculture, and that there is a need for scientific and political institutions that can integrate research into urban planning and its regulation, agriculture and health care systems. This will contribute to normal development and health throughout the human life cycle, and prevent or delay chronic diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.Scientists working in the fields of medicine, physiology, genetics, nutrition, dietetics, economics, architecture, agriculture as well as scientists and policy makers interested in environmental issues such as agricultural sustainability and climate will find this volume of great interest.

Healthy Agriculture, Healthy Nutrition, Healthy People

World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics

Vol. 102

Series Editor

Artemis P. Simopoulos

The Center for Genetics, Nutrition and Health, Washington, D.C., USA

Advisory Board

L. Dade Lunsford Pittsburgh, Pa.

Regina C. Casper USA

Uri Goldbourt Israel

C. Gopalan India

Tomohito Hamazaki Japan

Federico Leighton Chile

Michel de Lorgeril France

Edwin C.M. Mariman The Netherlands

Victor A. Rogozkin Russia

Marjanne Senekal South Africa

Leonard Storlien Australia

Changhao Sun China

Antonio Velazquez Mexico

Mark L. Wahlqvist Australia

Paul Walter Switzerland

Bruce A. Watkins USA

Healthy Agriculture,
Healthy Nutrition,
Healthy People

Volume Editor

Artemis P. Simopoulos

The Center for Genetics, Nutrition and Health, Washington, D.C., USA

45 figures and 47 tables, 2011

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Artemis P. Simopoulos
The Center for Genetics
Nutrition and Health
Washington, D.C., USA

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

World Council on Genetics, Nutrition, and Fitness for Health. Conference (2010: Archaia Olympia, Greece)

Healthy agriculture, healthy nutrition, healthy people / volume editor, Artemis P. Simopoulos.

p. ; cm. -- (World review of nutrition and dietetics, ISSN 0084-2230 ; v. 102)

Volume contains selected papers presented at the Inaugural Conference of the World Council on Genetic, Nutrition, and Fitness for Health, which took place in Ancient Olympia, Greece, on October 5-8, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN 978-3-8055-9779-1 (hard cover: alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-3-8055-9780-7 (e-ISBN)

1. Nutrition--Congresses. 2. Environmental health--Congresses. 3. Agriculture--Congresses. I. Simopoulos, Artemis P., 1933- II. Title. III. Series: World review of nutrition and dietetics ; v. 102. 0084-2230

[DNLM: 1. Dietetics--methods--Congresses. 2. Exercise--physiology--Congresses. 3. Fatty Acids, Omega-3--physiology--Congresses. 4. Fatty Acids, Omega-6--physiology--Congresses. 5. Food Industry--trends--Congresses. 6. Nutritional Requirements--Congresses. WB 400]

RA601.W76 2010

363.19'2--dc23

2011019382

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ISSN 0084-2230

ISBN 978-3-8055-9779-1

e-ISBN 978-3-8055-9780-7

Contents

The World Council on Genetics, Nutrition and Fitness for Health Membership

Conference Sponsors

List of Contributors

Preface

Poems

Pinkerson, L.H. (Palatka, Fla.)

Action Plan for a Healthy Agriculture, Healthy Nutrition, Healthy People

Simopoulos, A.P. (Washington, D.C.); Faergeman, O. (Aarhus); Bourne, P.G. (Oxford)

Keynote

Keynote

Faergeman, O. (Aarhus)

Part I

Importance of the Omega-6/Omega-3 Balance in Health and Disease: Evolutionary Aspects of Diet

Simopoulos, A.P. (Washington, D.C.)

The Omega-6/Omega-3 Fatty Acid Ratio in Chronic Diseases: Animal Models and Molecular Aspects

Kang, J.X. (Boston, Mass.)

All PUFAs Are Not Created Equal: Absence of CHD Benefit Specific to Linoleic Acid in Randomized Controlled Trials and Prospective Observational Cohorts

Ramsden, C.E.; Hibbeln, J.R.; Majchrzak-Hong, S.F. (Bethesda, Md.)

Stress and Behavior: The Role of Nutrients with Emphasis on Omega-3 Fatty Acids

Pervanidou, P.; Chrousos, G.P. (Athens)

The Current Greek Diet and the Omega-6/Omega-3 Balance: The Mediterranean Diet Score Is Inversely Associated with the Omega-6/Omega-3 Ratio

Panagiotakos, D.B.; Kastorini, C.-M.; Pitsavos, C.; Stefanadis, C. (Athens)

The Chilean Diet and the Omega-6/Omega-3 Balance

Leighton, F.; Echeverria, G.; Urquiaga, I. (Santiago)

From the Swedish to the Mediterranean Diet and the Omega-6/Omega-3 Balance

Strandvik B. (Gothenburg/Stockholm); Chen, Y.; Dangardt, F.; Eriksson, S.; Friberg, P.; Garemo, M. (Gothenburg); Pickova, J. (Uppsala)

From French to Mediterranean Diet: Importance of the Omega-6/Omega-3 Fatty Acids Ratio

Elisha, B. (Montreal, Que.); Guebre-Egziabher, F.; Vidal, H. (Lyon); Bastard, J.-P. (Lyon/Paris); Laville, M. (Oullins); Rabasa-Lhoret, R. (Montreal, Que.)

Epidemiological Studies on Cognition and the Omega-6/Omega-3 Balance

Féart, C.; Barberger-Gateau, P. (Bordeaux)

Diet and Mental Health: An Up-to-Date Analysis

Casper, R.C. (Stanford, Calif.)

The Okinawan Diet: A Modern View of an Ancestral Healthy Lifestyle

Salen, P.; de Lorgeril, M. (Grenoble)

New Cholesterol Guidelines for Longevity (2010)

Okuyama, H. (Nagoya); Hamazaki, T. (Sugitani); Ogush...