Archivo etiqueta «Alimentación»
Por M. Carmen Vidal Carou, catedrática de Nutrición y Bromatología de la Universitat de Barcelona. Investigadora del Institut de Nutrició i Seguretat dels Aliments de la UB, INSA-UB (LA VANGUARDIA, 14/02/10):
No sólo hay que comer para vivir: una buena alimentación tiene efectos protectores frente a algunas enfermedades, y malos hábitos contribuyen a su aparición. Las enfermedades cardiovasculares, determinados tipos de cáncer o la diabetes, entre otras patologías, son ya responsables de dos terceras partes de las muertes en todo el planeta y la proporción va aumentando.
De los diez factores de riesgo identificados como claves para su desarrollo, cinco… Seguir leyendo
By Paul Greenberg, the author of the forthcoming Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 16/12/09):
“What’s the deal with fish oil?”
If you are someone who catches and eats a lot of fish, as I am, you get adept at answering questions about which fish are safe, which are sustainable and which should be avoided altogether. But when this fish oil question arrived in my inbox recently, I was stumped. I knew that concerns about overfishing had prompted many consumers to choose supplements as a guilt-free way of getting their omega-3 fatty acids,… Seguir leyendo
By Astrid Scholz, the vice president of knowledge systems at Ecotrust in Portland, Ore; Ulf Sonesson, a researcher at the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology and Peter Tyedmers, a professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 09/12/09):
Go local. Eat organic. Buy fresh. Those food mantras continue to make waves among environmentally conscious consumers. But — as is often the case in these climate-conscious times — if the motivation is to truly make our diets more earth-friendly, then perhaps we need a new mantra: Buy frozen.
Several years ago, the three of us —… Seguir leyendo
By Gary Steiner, a professor of philosophy at Bucknell University and the author of Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status and Kinship (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 22/11/09):
Lately more people have begun to express an interest in where the meat they eat comes from and how it was raised. Were the animals humanely treated? Did they have a good quality of life before the death that turned them into someone’s dinner?
Some of these questions, which reach a fever pitch in the days leading up to Thanksgiving, pertain to the ways in which animals are treated. (Did… Seguir leyendo
By Nicolette Hahn Niman, a lawyer and livestock rancher and the author of Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 31/10/09):
Is eating a hamburger the global warming equivalent of driving a Hummer? This week an article in The Times of London carried a headline that blared: “Give Up Meat to Save the Planet.” Former Vice President Al Gore, who has made climate change his signature issue, has even been assailed for omnivorous eating by animal rights activists.
It’s true that food production is an important contributor to climate change. And the… Seguir leyendo
By Dominic Lawson (THE TIMES, 09/08/09):
There are two reliable ways of telling if you have won an argument. The first is if your disputants switch from discussion of the facts to accusations about motives; the second, more obviously, is if they descend to mere abuse.
Alan Dangour, a nutritionist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, should therefore feel he has had an encouragingly uncomfortable week. He is the author of a peer-reviewed meta-study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that concluded, from 50 years of scientific evidence, that so-called “organic” food was no healthier than… Seguir leyendo
Por Demetrio Loperena Rota, catedrático de Derecho Administrativo (EL CORREO DIGITAL, 01/06/09):
La crisis económica ha sacudido a los ciudadanos de los países desarrollados por la convulsión que ha provocado en sus hábitos de vida y la incertidumbre que ha sembrado respecto al futuro. Pero tiene un componente mucho más cruel sobre los países pobres y las zonas marginales del mundo. Unas sociedades, tan desestructuradas como sus Estados, que ven como la necesidad primaria, la alimentación, se ve condicionada por las economías del primer mundo, sus intereses y sus modos de vida.
Recuerdo a mi abuelo repitiendo, «con las cosas… Seguir leyendo
Por Ben MacIntyre, escritor y columnista de The Times. Su última obra publicada es Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal (EL MUNDO, 01/05/09):
Hubo un tiempo en que trabajé en una granja de cría de pollos.A decir verdad, hablar de granja es emplear un término excesivamente suave para referirse a la forma en que se criaban aquellos pollos y decir fábrica parece excesivamente cínico. Aquello era el séptimo círculo del infierno de los pollos, una cadena de producción que no dejaba de cloquear, que exhalaba un hedor vomitivo y que estaba anegada en la inmundicia,… Seguir leyendo
Por Mariann Fischer Boel, Comisaria Europea de Africultura y Desarrollo Rural (EL CORREO DIGITAL, 12/04/09):
Los europeos despilfarran cada año ingentes cantidades de alimentos. El hecho de tirar una manzana por aquí o un litro de leche por allá posiblemente parezca insignificante. Sin embargo, todo ello se va acumulando y va adquiriendo dimensiones casi inconcebibles. Según el Grupo Europeo de Ética, la cantidad de alimentos desperdiciados en Francia podría alimentar a las personas desnutridas de la República Democrática del Congo y con los de Italia se podría poner fin al hambre en Etiopía.
El despilfarro generalizado de alimentos no es… Seguir leyendo
Por Juan Ignacio Pérez Iglesias, catedrático de Biología animal y ex rector de la UPV-EHU (EL CORREO DIGITAL, 06/02/09):
L a pasada semana tuvo lugar en Madrid una cumbre internacional sobre Seguridad Alimentaria organizada por la FAO y por el Gobierno de España. La citada cumbre ha pasado casi desapercibida, en parte debido a otros intereses informativos -meteoros de cierta intensidad, malísimos augurios económicos, espionaje político en Madrid y próximas elecciones autonómicas-, y en parte al poco interés que despiertan esas cuestiones entre nosotros. Despiertan poco interés, sí, y sin embargo, se estima que son cerca de mil millones las… Seguir leyendo
By Jayati Ghosh, a professor of economics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in India (THE GUARDIAN, 09/01/09):
Just a few months ago, we were being told that this is a period of stark, unprecedented and unfolding food crisis, with looming shortages and huge global imbalances between demand and supply. Everyone who matters – from officials in international organisations to leaders of rich and poor countries – warned us of the terrible social, political and nutritional consequences of doing nothing, of the millions who would go hungry and the riots that would occur if the imbalances persisted or increased.
But now… Seguir leyendo
By Wes Jackson, a plant geneticist and president of The Land Institute in Salina, Kan and Wendell Berry, a farmer and writer in Port Royal, Ky (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 05/01/09):
The extraordinary rainstorms last June caused catastrophic soil erosion in the grain lands of Iowa, where there were gullies 200 feet wide. But even worse damage is done over the long term under normal rainfall — by the little rills and sheets of erosion on incompletely covered or denuded cropland, and by various degradations resulting from industrial procedures and technologies alien to both agriculture and nature.
Soil that is… Seguir leyendo
By Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for international Development. Pump Aid is supported by the Times Christmas Appeal (THE TIMES, 29/12/08):
A billion people around the world face a stark choice – to drink potentially lethal water or nothing. Sometimes when faced with these huge facts, we can feel that there is nothing we can do to change them.
When I first heard the remarkable story of Pump Aid, I was reminded of something Margaret Mead, the American anthropologist, once said: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing… Seguir leyendo
Por Juan Carlos García Cebolla, coordinador del Proyecto Iniciativa América Latina y Caribe sin Hambre de la FAO (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 24/11/08):
Tema: La crisis alimentaria supone un fuerte retroceso en la lucha contra el hambre en América Latina y el Caribe.
Resumen: La crisis alimentaria no es de disponibilidad, es de carestía de los alimentos. El cambio de tendencia implica precios promedio superiores en los años venideros y ruptura de la seguridad de un abaratamiento continuado del abastecimiento alimentario, y un fuerte retroceso en la lucha contra el hambre en América Latina y el Caribe. Entre 2005 y 2007… Seguir leyendo