Special Issue "Public Health and Sustainability in Food Consumption Habits"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Health and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Lorenza Mistura
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Guest Editor
Council for Agricultural Research and Economics-Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Via Ardeatina 546, 00178 Rome, Italy
Interests: food consumption survey methods; dietary assessment; food exposure to substance in the food
Dr. Marika Ferrari
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Guest Editor
Council for Agricultural Research and Economics-Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Via Ardeatina 546, 00178 Rome, Italy
Interests: national food consumption; nutrients intake; micronutrients deficiency; sustainable diet; nutritional requirements
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Prof. Aida Turrini
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Guest Editor
Council for Agricultural Research and Economics-Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Via Ardeatina 546, 00178 Rome, Italy
Interests: dietary assessment; dietary survey; food system; research infrastructure
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Our world is facing a number of challenges related to food consumption. Food demand is increasing by demographics growth, and the global food system is the largest contributor to environmental degradation, the loss of biodiversity, and the depletion of natural resources. In parallel, dietary inadequacy is observed among the population with a high prevalence of malnutrition, with people continuing to starve and suffering from micronutrient deficiency; on the other side of the spectrum, unhealthy dietary habits and related lifestyle lead to health problems such as cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes, being overweight and obesity, and other non-communicable diseases that affect public health.

Therefore, food consumption has an impact on public health, the environment, social cohesion, and the economy.

Despite considerable progress in the development of sustainability targets and worldwide indicators, such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the integration of health and food consumption habits according to sustainable aspects, both at an individual and a societal level, is still needed.

Most of the literature related to this topic underlines the need to achieve improvements in public health and sustainability.

The aim of this Special Issue is to collect research articles in relation to the relationship between public health and sustainability, where food consumption habits play the role of bridging production–environment–health. Production provides food and impacts on the environment; the environment impacts on climate (greenhouse gases emissions) and health (via residues that cause soil, air, and water pollution and consequently dietary exposure); consumption impacts on the environment (production of food and non-food waste) and health (good/poor nutrition affect health); and ultimately, food demand has an impact on the production system. Therefore, fixing food consumption will enable the management and achievement of several SDGs.

Dr. Lorenza Mistura
Dr. Marika Ferrari
Prof. Aida Turrini
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • food consumption
  • health
  • sustainability
  • diet
  • food system
  • sustainable diet
  • consumers
  • overweight and obesity
  • labeling

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The Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages Can Be Reduced by Fiscal Means? Study on the Case of Romania
Sustainability 2021, 13(14), 7553; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13147553 - 06 Jul 2021
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World Health Organization gives great importance to excessive alcohol consumption among the population and its negative effects. It proposes a set of measures to reduce alcohol consumption and its harmful effects. The objective of our study was to estimate the effects of excise [...] Read more.
World Health Organization gives great importance to excessive alcohol consumption among the population and its negative effects. It proposes a set of measures to reduce alcohol consumption and its harmful effects. The objective of our study was to estimate the effects of excise tax on alcohol in Romania, from two perspectives. On the one hand, we analyze the effects of alcohol excise on the consumption of alcoholic beverages among the Romanian population. We also consider the relationship between alcohol consumption and the incidence of diseases and deaths caused by it. On the other hand, we analyze the effects of the excise tax on alcohol on the state budget, through the revenues from the sales of alcohol. For achieving the main purpose of the paper, we analyze secondary data using both graphical and statistical methods. The statistical methods imply testing correlation between variables and also a regression model. The obtained results highlight the fact that the excise taxes on alcohol have not a significant effect on alcohol consumption among the population. At the same time, we observed that the revenues from excise taxes in alcohol at the state budget had an increasing trend. These results highlight the fact that the increase of excise duties for alcoholic beverages, in Romania, does not reduce their consumption. So, in order to limit the effects of this harmful habit of a certain part of the Romanian population, the decision-makers must take additional measures, the fiscal ones being relatively inefficient. Full article
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