title: The intersection of climate/environment, food, nutrition and health: crisis and opportunity.
abstract: Climate/environmental change (C-E-C) is affecting human health and quality of life. Significant attention has been given to the impact of C-E-C on food supply, and food as a vehicle for exposure. However, C-E-C has been superimposed on prevalent malnutrition, infectious and non-communicable diseases. We discuss why nutrition is not synonymous with food and must be viewed as a biological variable that affects and is affected by both C-E-C as well as the current global health challenges. The nexus of C-E-C, food, nutrition and health must be considered in the development of safe and efficacious interventions. A case is presented for how the convergence of C-E-C, food/nutrition and health, presents an opportunity for more integrated approaches to achieve global health goals.
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Growth and Nutrition Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA. Electronic address: raitend@mail.nih.gov.
authors.forename: Daniel J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Raiten
authors.affiliation: Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, Toronto, ON, Canada M5T 3M7.
authors.forename: Ashley M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Aimone
mesh_terms: D002980:Climate; D005502:Food; D005523:Food Supply; D014943:Global Health; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena