The Benefits of Food Fortification
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 48330
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Nutrients will be addressed to the benefits of food fortification. Micronutrient deficiencies are one of the biggest causes of inequality between the developed and the developing word. At the individual level, micronutrient deficiencies cause human physical and cognitive developmental delays and are responsible for increased risk of morbidity and mortality. At the population level, such deficiencies are responsible for the impairment of cultures, human capital, and national economies.
As the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics put it: “providing more calories would often not work and help little for the poor to eat better because the main problem was not calories, but other nutrients…... Nutrition is a conundrum in developing countries” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50048519.
Food fortification has the potential to provide unquestionable benefits in terms of human development, protection against acute and chronic disease, and economic growth. The price of inaction in this area is enormous. The scientific evidence is robust and consistent in showing the benefits of food fortification. However, the route from science to policy, and from policy to action is not straightforward.
In this Special Issue we hope to bring together papers dealing with the effects of food fortification on physical and mental health and on social and economic development. We hope to focus particularly on comparing the experiences of the countries that have implemented food fortification with those that have not. As a direct outcome of the Special Issue, we would like to have a “call to action” statement for countries following the recommendations with some concrete advice to national governments around how they can more effectively take advantage of this potentially powerful and relatively cheap intervention and addressing how fortification fits within other nutrition interventions. We hope that our authors will address many questions concerning the crucial role of food fortification on health, and that they will also work to elucidate the causes of implementation challenges and delays that plague the adoption of readily available food fortification strategies.
We welcome different types of manuscript submissions, including original research articles and up-to-date reviews. Potential topics may include, but are not limited to: associations between food fortification and anthropometric measures, cognitive development, communicable disease, chronic inflammation, quality of life, reproductive health, and economic impact.
Prof. Ganmaa Davaasambuu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nutrition
- health
- food fortification
- food fortification policy
- food fortification implementation
- call for action
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