Abstract

BERNAEBU-MESTRE, Josep  and  TORMO-SANTAMARIA, María. The historical perspective and critical analysis in addressing the food and social challenge of hidden hunger. An Venez Nutr [online]. 2020, vol.33, n.2, pp.149-153.  Epub Aug 25, 2021. ISSN 0798-0752.

The work raises the need to address hidden hunger based on food challenges and the socioeconomic casuistry that explain it. Are analysed the uses it has received from the history of the population and its association with the syndromes of misery, social backwardness and pauperization. As well as the new dimension that it has acquired with the emergence of the obesity pandemic and the double burden of malnutrition and overweight. Both the lessons of history, and the challenge posed by the more than 2 billion human beings affected by hidden hunger, show that to overcome it, beyond supplementing the deficit of micronutrients, it is necessary to correct social inequalities regarding the availability of food and other basic necessities.

Keywords : Hidden hunger; socioeconomic determinants; malnutrition and infection; population history; food and nutritional transition; overweight and obesity.

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