On December 10. 2010, Prof. Jane Chao from the College of Public Health and Nutrition (TMU) gave a very inspiring lecture on "Nutrition impact on global health" in the framework of our forums.In her presentation, Prof. Chao underlined two main issues: malnutrition and obesity around the world. First, after giving a short presentation of the definitions of malnutrition, mild / moderate /severe malnutrition and famine, she reminded to the audience composed of local and international students and faculties that 925 million people were still hunger people in 2010. With very telling maps she then underlined the geographical distribution of this situation around the world and highlighted how the international organizations, governments and NGOs were dealing with this issue.
Then, Prof. Chao presented the situation of obesity around the world, ranked the US., Mexico and the UK among the first three countries in terms of obesity and talked about a "globesity" crisis.
Finally, Prof Chao explained how malnutrition as well as obesity had a tremendous impact on health at the global, regional, national and individual levels.
To see Prof. Chao's presentation at TMU, please click here: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwxiA_OBopmCNzYyZTliYmItNTY0MS00NDNkLTk1ZGYtNzFkOTc2MjQ4OTNh&hl=en&authkey=COOwwcgH
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