UN to assess achievements and lay down 8 goals to reduce poverty.

 

GOAL #1 - Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.

GOAL #4 - Reduce child mortality.

GOAL #5 - Improve maternal health.

GOAL #7 - Ensure environmental sustainability.

The Mother and Child Foundation applauds the sentiments of the Goals. We wish to point out the omission of the brain. Mental ill-health is now the foremost burden of ill health in the West and is being rapidly globalised threatening the sustainability of humanity.

Pope Francis, Bishop of Rome, in his present tour of the USA has commented on the environmental crisis also as a threat to humanity. Indeed the reasons for the environmental crisis are the same that are affecting mental health. The intensification of land based agriculture since WWII at the expense of seafoods, the destruction of fisheries, pollution of rivers, lakes and oceans are all part of the loss of brain specific nutrition. The combination of global food policies which ignore the nutrition of the brain and neglect of the seminal importance of maternal nutrition in the months prior to conception is providing a toxic mix which is dismantling brain health.

Our Foundation in collaboration with the Academy of Gifted Children and Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition and the McCarrison Society for Nutrition and Health, is calling for a renaissance in education and food production. Children need to be empowered to make informed decisions based on nutritional science: decisions which will affect their health and the health and intelligence of their children. The continued rise in mental ill-health is fertilising the debasement of civil society which can only escalate without action. The food system, which currently majors on protein and calories, needs to focus on the brain specific nutrients to arrest this insidious threat and lead humanity towards progress and peace.

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