Non-communicable diseases. Cancer, cardiovascular diseases or diabetes mellitus: non-communicable diseases are now the number-one cause of death all over the world. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan described the spread of these diseases as a "slow motion...
Editorial Andrea Arz de Falco. People now live twice as long as they did a hundred years ago. We owe this huge increase in life expectancy to medical progress, advances in the economic and social spheres, better hygiene and education, the development of the social...
6th Swiss Nutrition Report. The typical inhabitant of Switzerland continues to eat too much sweet and salty food and too little fruit and vegetables, despite being aware of the most important recommendations on a healthy diet. Excessive bodyweight is still one...