POPULATION THAT CANNOT AFFORD A HEALTHY DIET IN ROMANIA COMPARATIVE WITH THE NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES

Anamaria Roxana Martin, Andrei Rusu, Marius Gordan, Tabita Adamov, Tiberiu Iancu

Abstract


The main objective of this paper is to asses the problem of the unaffordability of a healthy diet in Romania comparative with Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria and Moldova between 2017 to 2022. For the most part, people around the world still cannot afford diets that include a variety of safe and nutritious foods, particularly in South Asia and Africa. The least expensive combination of readily accessible local products that satisfy a food-based dietary guideline is considered the cost of a healthy diet. According to this relatively new statistic, 2–3 billion people do not have access to a healthy diet. Poor dietary quality can result in several types of malnutrition, encompassing undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies, in addition to overweight and obesity.

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food security; healthy diet; products; cost.

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