Thread by @WHO

Promoting healthy, sustainable food systems is part of WHO’s prescription for healthy recovery from #COVID19 and delivering #HealthForAll, well-being and equity around the 🌎

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How are food systems and health linked?

1⃣Unhealthy diets and food insecurity
Diseases caused by either a lack of access to 🥦🥕🍏or a diet high in sugar, salt or fats, are now among the most significant causes of 🌎 ill health.

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Food systems are more than what we eat!
Our relationship to food 🥗 spans society, politics, culture, jobs, faith, communities & families; every part of our lives, including our 🩺
Understanding food systems & health, helps all of us take action for👩🏽‍🤝‍👨🏾&🌏

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How are food systems and health linked?

2⃣ Food Safety
Every year, unsafe food containing harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemicals, causes more than 200 diseases, leading to:
➡️ 600 million people falling sick
➡️ 420 000 preventable deaths

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How are food systems and health linked?

3⃣ Environmental contamination
Practices used to
🌱 grow
🏭 produce
🚛 transport
🗑️ dispose of
... our food can contaminate our air, soil & water.
1 in 4 people die from causes linked to environmental conditions.

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4⃣ Occupational hazards
People who formally or informally work in the food system (from 🚜 to 🍽️) may face risks to their health on the job:
🤕 Injury
☠️ Poisoning
🫁 Development of noncommunicable diseases
😨 Stress

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How are food systems and health linked?

5⃣Zoonosis & Antimicrobial Resistance
Common practices in agriculture like deforestation
and overuse of antibiotics, are key causes of new and emerging diseases (e.g. Ebola, HIV, SARS) and #AntimicrobialResistance

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