Sustainable Food System Approach to Obesity Prevention: A Report

This report delves into the sustainable food system approach as a method to combat obesity and enhance food security. It begins by highlighting the interconnectedness of food insecurity and obesity, emphasizing the need for strategies that address both issues simultaneously. The report discusses how sustainable food systems, which prioritize economic, social, and environmental sustainability, can facilitate the provision of nutritious and accessible food to all populations. The report emphasizes the importance of promoting healthy eating habits and supporting local food production to ensure food security and reduce the prevalence of obesity. The report concludes by suggesting that a well-designed sustainable food system can contribute significantly to lowering obesity rates and improving public health outcomes by making nutritional, balanced food available to all. The report also includes references to support the claims.

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Food insecurity refers to limitation of sufficient and safe food which is linked with
disorder eating habits and poor diet. Such reason has the potential to increase the chance and risk
of obesity and related health issue like diabetes, cardiovascular complication and kidney failure
(Kaur, Lamb and Ogden 2015). The dual burden of food insecurity and obesity can be addressed
by promoting sustainable food system which also focus to prevent obesity and improve food
security. The increasing population has given huge burden of food insecurity and obesity which
needs to think about food system approach. Sustainable food system is the type of food system
that aims to provide food security and adequate nutrition for the all people in the way that need
of future generation is not compromised (Holben and Marshall 2017). It mainly focus on
economic, social and environmental sustainability which relates to profit, benefits to society and
positive impact on the environment respectively. The food system approach is needed to be taken
in the context of changing consumption patterns and healthy eating. The approach and system
has led the flow of nutritional food item into the market, by encouraging the local production to
make nutritious food available, affordable and accessible (Elmes 2018). Thus, the system
provide healthy food to the growing population with least impact on the environment. It will help
to create food security in the population fulfilling the nutritional requirements. Obesity is majorly
caused by the consumption of highly processed, high calories food and low nutritional food
which is mainly due to food insecurity. Thus, with the sustainable food system, all the people
will receive adequate nutritional balanced food, it will help to lower the rate of obesity and
improve the health status of the growing population (Pérez-Escamilla 2017).

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