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Humans have very complex and intricate relationships with food water not only because they are after Oxygen, the most essential elements for life and metabolic requirements for the life of all animals, but also because along with the concept of hygiene they are object of heated discussion and controversies. In general food safety ranks as one of the highest priorities in most developed countries, but in the rest of the less privileged world more fundamental needs of achieving international water sanitation targets and food security are more imperative. The global life expectancy at birth has increased in recent years but child obesity as well. The current public opinion about food and water related risks vary greatly, and differences between perceived risks and real risks seem to be centered on natural ethnocentrisms, which not only guides the choice of foods but also our perception and management of food related risks.
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“Year of Life Lost (YLL) takes into account the age at which deaths occur by assigning greater statistical weight to deaths occurring at younger ages and lower statistical weight to deaths occurring at older ages” [3].
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Zaccheo, A., Palmaccio, E., Venable, M., Locarnini-Sciaroni, I., Parisi, S. (2017). The Complex Relationships Between Humans, Food, Water, and Hygiene. In: Food Hygiene and Applied Food Microbiology in an Anthropological Cross Cultural Perspective. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44975-3_1
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