VOLUNTARY CODE OF CONDUCT FOR PROMOTING ADHERENCE TO THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET
AS A MODEL OF SUSTAINABLE DIET
Tuesday August 26th -08:00 - 09:30, Room 341
A voluntary code of conduct for measuring and promoting adherence and sustainability of the Mediterranean Diet (MedDiet)- Rationale, proposition and challenges
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SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM
Room 341
Liste des intervenants
Chair(s)
J. Delarue
08:00 -08:05
Opening
J. Delarue
08:05 - 08:15
A rights'-based perspective on a Mediterranean Diet Code of Conduct
B. Burlingame
08:15 -08:25
Advancing the Unified Mediterranean Diet Score (UMEDS) Framework: Validation Strategy and Future Prospects
N. Hwalla
08:25 - 08:35
Barriers to an improve adherence to the Mediterranean Diet
M. Gonzalez Gross
08:35 -08:45
Available, sustainable but not eaten: Improving adherence to the Mediterranean Diet through the Sociotype approach
E. Berry
08:45 -08:55
Catalyzing adherence to the Mediterranean diet through a voluntary code of conduct
S. Dernini
08:55 -09:10
Closing with questions from audience.
Globally, and over many decades, hundreds of agreed texts in the form of guidelines, goals, targets, treaties, codes of conduct, declarations, action plans and recommendations covering a variety of topics, have been produced.
There is a long history of failures and unintended consequences in all sectors’ approaches, including interventions of one sector undermining those of the other.
International initiatives and guidelines in nutrition, as well as those addressing environmental sustainability have largely been sector specific.
For many decades, the nutrition and agriculture sectors were focussed on dietary energy supply and food security. Food was the basic unit of nutrition (FAO, 2003).
Individual nutrients were the basic units of nutrition for the health sector. The health sector model focussed on diet-related chronic diseases and micronutrient deficiency diseases. The disease model for malnutrition required pharmaceutical-types of interventions – hence, ‘good’ nutrients were delivered to diverse populations as supplements, fortificants and therapeutic formulations; and intakes of ‘bad’ food components were treated with drugs. Food-based approaches for dealing with micronutrient deficiencies were consequently undermined. Thus, a multi-sectoral, transdisciplinary approach seemed long overdue.
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