{"id":5716,"date":"2019-10-03T09:19:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T06:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5716"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","slug":"food-habits-of-kids-in-accra-show-how-unhealthy-diets-take-root","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/03\/food-habits-of-kids-in-accra-show-how-unhealthy-diets-take-root\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Habits Of Kids In Accra Show How Unhealthy Diets Take Root"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By<\/em><\/strong><em> <strong>Sara Stevano<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What we eat is changing\non a global scale. Changes in the types of food that are available and\naffordable, where we buy food and how we prepare it carry significant\nconsequences for nutrition and health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until the 20th century,\nthe key nutritional issue was that people could not afford sufficient food or\nthe necessary nutrients. But nowadays, the single most important issue is the\nco-existence of undernutrition \u2013 lack of access to sufficient quantities of\nfood \u2013 and overnutrition \u2013 excessive consumption of food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across the world, calorie\nintake is on the rise and so is consumption of vegetable oils, meats and\nultra-processed foods. Overall, imbalanced diets and multiple, at times\nopposite, nutritional problems are at the core of today\u2019s public health\nchallenges. Middle-income countries like Ghana embody this ambivalence. They\nshow the highest increased consumption of unhealthy foods, but also\nimprovements in consumption of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25701991\">healthy foods<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shifts in diet and\nlifestyle are undeniable. But a key question remains unanswered: how does the\nglobalisation of food systems affect different groups? Given the multiple\nburdens of malnutrition, it is important to understand who is more likely to\nsuffer from undernutrition or from obesity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/food-habits-of-kids-in-accra-show-how-unhealthy-diets-take-root-123149\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sara Stevano What we eat is changing on a global scale. Changes in the types of food that are available and affordable, where we buy food and how we&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}