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Eating from a Nutrition Point of View

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Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics

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Eating behavior; Everyday life; Health; Nutrition promotion; Salutogenesis

Introduction

Ample evidence exists on the negative influence on health of eating a diet high in energy, saturated fat, and salt and the onset of diabetes, cardiovascular, and malignant diseases (for an overview, see WHO 2004). The rising problem of obesity fuels the efforts of health promoters, policy makers, the food industry, and other experts concerned with nutrition communication to promote convenient healthful eating. Despite these efforts, promoting healthful eating remains a challenge (see Obesity and Consumer Choice).

At present, two contradictory trends emerge in nutrition promotion. On the one hand, decades of efforts have created awareness and understanding of eating for health, to eat a variety of food, more fruits, vegetables, and fish and avoid too much fatty and sugary food, calories, and salt, and have also created the intention to do so in practice. At the environmental level, great...

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  1. Health and Society Group, Wageningen University, 8130, 6700 EW, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Dr. Laura Bouwman & Dr. Emily Swan (Ph.D. Chair)

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  1. Michigan State University Dept. Philosophy, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

    Paul B. Thompson

  2. University of North Texas Dept. Philosophy & Religion Studies, Denton, Texas, USA

    David M. Kaplan

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Bouwman, L., Swan, E. (2013). Eating from a Nutrition Point of View. In: Thompson, P., Kaplan, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6167-4_272-5

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