In Ecuador, rural people, and particularly rural Indigenous people, are disproportionately affected by nutrient inadequacies, obesity, and overweight.
A 2008 United Nations report states that climate change is not gender-neutral — women are more negatively affected by its impacts.
The global rise of childhood obesity has been dramatic. Overweight and obesity conditions in children negatively affect their progressive physical development and are a predisposing risk factor for non-communicable diseases.
Non-communicable diseases are responsible for more than half of the global burden of disease.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the cause of one-third of deaths in Argentina. An unhealthy diet is a major contributor to CVD and the related rapidly increasing incidence of obesity and diabetes in the country.
Front-of-package (FOP) food labels have been recommended by the World Health Organization and public health experts worldwide as an effective measure to strengthen understanding of nutritional information and help consumers make healthy choices.
Since its detection in Brazil in May 2015, the Zika virus has spread rapidly throughout the geographical range occupied by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
High salt diets are a major cause of high blood pressure, a leading risk factor for death, and account for close to two-thirds of strokes and one-half of heart disease incidents worldwide.