41 FOUR Nutrition in marginalised groups Rosalind Fallaize and Julie Lovegrove Introduction The nutritional intake of the homeless and other marginalised groups, including those surviving on limited income, is inadequate. This chapter gives an overview of key nutritional issues and contemporary advances in human nutrition in marginalised groups and provides insight from primary research into the nutritional needs of vulnerable groups. There is evidence to suggest that the dietary choices of communities on low income, including the homeless and families
7 eIGHT Inequalities in food and nutrition: challenging ‘lifestyles’ Elizabeth Dowler, Martin Caraher and Paul Lincoln This chapter examines work on inequalities in food and nutrition in the UK since the late 1990s, looking at how problems have been constructed and measured, responses by government and civil society, and future challenges. It begins by summarising data on social inequalities in food and nutritional intakes and outcomes, focusing largely on income and occupationally based inequalities, and outlines why these outcomes are thought to occur
197 ELEVEN Migration and nutrition Janice L. Thompson, Joy Merrell, Barry Bogin, Hannah Jennings, Michael Heinrich, Vanja Garaj, Diane Harper, Bablin Molik and Jasmin Chowdhury Introduction The Bangladeshi population is one of the fastest growing ethnic groups within the UK. In 2011 the Bangladeshi population resident in England and Wales was 447,201, or 0.8 per cent of the total UK population; this is an increase of just over 50 per cent from the previous census in 2001 (ONS, 2012). Additionally, this group is reported to be one of the most deprived
Introduction In this chapter, we selectively examine the significance of nutrition and health as well as the role of clean water, for example, what is likely to happen to the poor if natural resources such as water are insufficiently available to them; what is the extent of food security and its effects on nutrition and health including on the urban poor? How do urban pollution and the lack of sanitary facilities affect the poor? And how forest inhabitants’ flailing rights impinge directly on the poor. Some of India’s new laws created legal entitlements over
focus with the exploration of nutrition and lifestyle-related patterns that could bring complementary knowledge about determinants that may cause or protect against cancer ( WCRF and AICR, 2018 ). Meta-analyses of observational studies using holistic approaches by the identification of broader dietary or lifestyle patterns, concluded that the adherence to prudent/healthy dietary patterns, generally characterised by vegetables, fruits and whole grain cereal consumption, could protect from breast and gastric cancers ( Brennan et al, 2010 ; Bertuccio et al, 2013
Introduction While several studies have emphasized the vulnerability and helplessness of women during disasters due to sociocultural norms ( Ikeda 1995 ; Enarson and Morrow 1998 ; Fothergill 1998 ; Rashid 2002 ; Enarson and Meyreles 2004 ; Islam 2011 ), research in this area remains limited. This chapter presents the implication of gender roles to children’s food and nutrition security in extreme weather events (EWEs). 1 More specifically, it links three factors: EWEs, maternal care, and child nutrition preservation in the face of a flooding disaster
411 Section VIII Does early nutrition affect later health? 33 In D. Smith (ed) (1996) The history of nutrition in Britain in the twentieth century: Science, scientists and politics, London: Routledge, pp 214-37 Does early nutrition affect later health? Views from the 1930s and 1980s George Davey Smith and Diana Kuh Introduction Recently there has been a shift in the focus of investigations of the causes of chronic disease from health-related behaviours and risk factors acting during adulthood to experiences occurring during early life: in childhood, infancy
excessive strain on the environment ( O’Neill et al, 2018 ). A high-ranking nation in social well-being, Finland, has been proclaimed the happiest country in the world for the sixth year in a row ( Helliwell et al, 2023 ), but at the same time it exceeds various environmental thresholds, such as carbon dioxide emissions (CO 2 ) – the average carbon footprint of a Finn is estimated to be ten times above the sustainable level ( IGES et al, 2019 ). The major contributors to the carbon footprint of an average Finn are housing, mobility and nutrition. Thus far
157 NINE NANA: a tale of ageing and technology Arlene Astell, Elizabeth Williams, Faustina Hwang, Laura Brown, Sarah Cooper, Claire Timon, Lin MacLean, Tom Smith, Tim Adlam, Hassan Khadra and Alan Godfrey Introduction Nutrition plays a key role in later life health and wellbeing. Older people face a high risk of nutrient deficiencies and malnutrition that can lead to sarcopenia, loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength. A recent review identified that sarcopenia was associated with functional decline, higher rate of falls, higher incidence of
