Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: The role and challenges of the food industry in addressing chronic disease | Yach et al. Globalization and Health 2010 6 10 http content 6 1 10 GLOBALIZATION yiy AND HEALTH REVIEW Open Access The role and challenges of the food industry in addressing chronic disease Derek Yach 1 Mehmood Khan2 Dondeena Bradley3 Rob Hargrove4 Stephen Kehoe5 and George Mensah6 Summary Increasingly food companies play an important role in stemming the rising burden of nutrition-related chronic diseases. Concrete actions taken by these companies include global public commitments to address food reformulation consumer information responsible marketing promotion of healthy lifestyles and public-private partnerships. These actions are reviewed together with eleven specific PepsiCo goals and commitments that address products the marketplace and communities at large. Interim progress on these goals and commitments are discussed as well as constraints hampering faster progress. Further disease prevention depends on increasing implementation of private-public initiatives. Introduction The rising global burden of nutrition-related diseases 1 calls for concerted action. There is an emerging urgent need to resolve acute and chronic hunger malnutrition and undernutrition 2 . In particular compromised nutritional status of mothers and children very early in life has significant impact on the future occurrence of chronic diseases such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes 3 4 . Concurrently populations are faced with increasing implications of overweight and obesity. The World Health Organization WHO estimates that in 2005 more than 1 billion people were overweight and 300 million obese with projections of billion people overweight by 2015 1 . Worldwide 44 percent of diabetes burden 23 percent of ischemic heart disease burden and 7 to 41 percent of the burden of some cancers can be attributed to overweight and obesity 5 . This paper reviews the progress that major food manufacturing companies and partnerships are making in nutrition-related
