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Staple foods and seasonings like flour and salt could be made more nutritious with a new technology that borrows from the pharmaceutical industry, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
Global database on the Implementation of Nutrition Action (GINA).
Global targets tracking tool.
Nutrition Landscape Information System (NLiS)
Vitamin and Mineral Nutrition Information System (VMNIS)
WHO Global Database on Body Mass Index
WHO Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition
WHO Global Data Bank on Infant and Young Child Feeding
Our ultimate goal is to collect, harmonize and disseminate data available at national and sub-national level all over the world through an FAO hosted web-platform.
The Global Dietary Database (GDD) is an ongoing collaborative effort to produce the most reliable estimates of dietary intake worldwide and inform global health and nutrition research and policy, particularly in poor and vulnerable populations.
Overweight and obesity lead to adverse metabolic effects on blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides and insulin resistance. Risks of coronary heart disease, ischemic stroke and type 2 diabetes mellitus increase steadily with increasing body mass index (BMI), a measure of weight relative to height.
FAOSTAT provides free access to food and agriculture data for over 245 countries and territories and covers all FAO regional groupings from 1961 to the most recent year available.
