The seminar "In search of a paradigm to build the global diet", will be held Wednesday May 8 at l 'Cu.Bo building dell 'Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma. Edited by Dr. Roberto Menta, Strategic Ferrero Consultant, the initiative was born within the program Global Challenges Scholars Program.
The challenge that most concerns us survival as a species and that too of the planet on which we live is related to the mandatory principle of providing nourishment of quality comparable to all the beings that populate our "mother Earth", without this production of goods put to further risk the survival of the Earth system as we know it.
Agricultural production has achieved incredible results, allowing the maximum development of the civilizations that first adopted these principles, however, the Second Green Revolution, Has underestimated the impact on the environment which today is highly degraded and which risks representing the greatest danger to the existence of human beings.
Ours has similarly grown knowledge of the most nutritionally important factors to positively influence our state of health: while scientific evidence was sought, the diffusion of concepts and ideas not based in science has created confusion, anxiety and even distrust towards science among citizens.
At the same time, theanalysis of food trade flows increased threefold for the environment, and the production has only doubled. An in-depth analysis of the most concrete scientific, nutritional and environmental knowledge to define common development paradigms can no longer be postponed.
The search for a healthy and sustainable diet paradigm can only be based on the most accredited diets as such. However, it is no longer possible today to think of a healthy diet that excludes aspects of maximum respect for the environment. Mediterranean diet, DASH diet, Nordic diet are the dietary patterns that reach the maximum positive values in the analyzes of their effects.
Each has advantages and problems, each has strengths and weaknesses especially in terms of the availability of raw materials, which represent the foundations. The analysis of strengths and critical issues of each of these approaches was evaluated in light of possibility of becoming un paradigm valid for all human beings without anyone being left behind.
Il achievement of a “food system” non-discriminatory requires the collaboration of all system components in synergy and without prejudice in the light and under the north star of scientific evidence as a compass of orientation.
The conclusions and possible ideas for activities to mitigate the effects of climate change are a Herculean effort, but certainly “doing as it has always been done” is no longer a viable solution. The central role of institutions and universities today cannot ignore the stimuli and evidence that the industrial system can provide, without prejudice to the priority of the common good as an indispensable element. The presented analysis is based on nutrient flow (macro) and seeks to define evaluation tools that they can propose global solutions.
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