World Nutrition

ISSN 2041-9775
Volume 2, Number 6, June 2011

Journal of the World Public Health Nutrition Association
Published monthly at www.wphna.org

Editorial, and Commentary

Claudio Schuftan
Food prices, riots, and wars

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro
The cost and the value of meals

Commentary

Shiriki Kumanyika, Christina Economos
Prevention of obesity: Finding the best evidence





World Nutrition

Volume 2, Number 6, June 2011

Journal of the World Public Health Nutrition Association
Published in the UK monthly at www.wphna.org

The Association is an affiliated body of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences For membership and for other contributions, news, columns and services, go to: www.wphna.org

Publishing and editorial Board

Barrie Margetts (Chair),
Geoffrey Cannon, Ted Greiner, Roger Hughes, Urban Jonsson,
Harriet Kuhnlein, Shiriki Kumanyika, Carlos Monteiro, Walter Willett

Editor

Geoffrey Cannon

Assistant editors

Reggie Annan
Fabio Gomes

Web manager

Martin Evans, Pewter

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World Nutrition

Volume 2, Number 6, June 2011

Journal of the World Public Health Nutrition Association
Published monthly at www.wphna.org

The Association is an affiliated body of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences For membership and for other contributions, news, columns and services, go to: www.wphna.org

Contents



Our cover picture is Liberty Leading the People, by Eugène Delacroix
As every nutrition student knows, the French Revolution began with food riots

 

Cover, Masthead, Contents  
pdf  

Editorial

247-253

The shape of wars to come  
pdf  

Commentary

254-270

Claudio Schuftan

 
Food price crises: 'Free markets' cause inequity and hunger  
pdf  

Commentary

271-282

Carlos Monteiro: The big issue is ultra-processing

 
The cost and the value of meals

 

pdf  

Commentary: update of the 2010 Institute of Medicine report

283-299

Shiriki Kumanyika, Christina Economos

 
Prevention of obesity: Finding the best evidence

 

pdf  


March

World Nutrition


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Fortification

Folic acid and
spina bifida


Mark Lawrence
Access cover, contents here
Access editorial here


WN

The Food System



Big Food bitten


Geoffrey Cannon
Access commentary here


March
COLUMNS

Philip James

From Cairo

Moving on to 2015-2025
How to work with industry

Click here


Geoffrey Cannon

From São Paulo

The five dimensions of nutrition
It is best to be small

Click here


Claudio Schuftan

From Bangkok

A tale of three meetings
How nice to meet Dr Nabarro

Click here


Reggie Annan

From Kumasi

Cancer in Africa:
Prevention and control

Click here


April issue
Out on 1 April


WN

New book

Cooking




Michael Pollan

Available on 1 April