Abstract
Refers to: Victoria Miller, Salim Yusuf, Clara K Chow, Mahshid Dehghan, Daniel J Corsi, Karen Lock, Barry Popkin, Sumathy Rangarajan, Rasha Khatib, Scott A Lear, Prem Mony, Manmeet Kaur, Viswanathan Mohan, Krishnapillai Vijayakumar, Rajeev Gupta, Annamarie Kruger, Lungiswa Tsolekile, Noushin Mohammadifard, Omar Rahman, Annika Rosengren, Alvaro Avezum, et al. Availability, affordability, and consumption of fruits and vegetables in 18 countries across income levels: findings from the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study The Lancet Global Health, Volume 4, Issue 10, October 2016, Pages e695-e703
Highlights
The major preventable risk factor contributing to the burden of disease worldwide is a poor diet, including inadequate fruit and vegetable consumption.[1,2]
Improving nutrition in all countries requires both interventions to reduce the intake of harmful foods high in saturated fat, added sugar, and salt, and interventions to increase consumption of healthy foods, such as fruits and vegetables.[2]
Affordability of fruits and vegetables decreased as the economic level of countries decreased; the proportion of household income required to purchase recommended quantities ranged from 1·85% in high-income countries to 51·97% (46·06–57·88) in low-income countries
Summary
The major preventable risk factor contributing to the burden of disease worldwide is a poor diet, including inadequate fruit and vegetable consumption.[1,2] In many low-income and middle-income countries, undernutrition—ie, not having enough food—has been a major concern.
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