For a Kinder World (FKW) Organization

FKW is a nonprofit organization created to explore how diet may affect our health, the environment, our behavior towards animals, and the world’s economy.  These four issues are some of the most important problems that humanity has always faced. The graph below shows them as an interconnected system:

In FKW, certain facts and truths about these issues are discussed. The lack of understanding of how diet affects these issues led us to continue: our unhealthy dietary habits, the destruction of our environment; the unethical killings of land animals and fish, and the abuse of the economy. A better understanding of these issues may help to improve humanity’s current situation and make the world a healthier, safer, and kinder place. In the next paragraph, we discuss some ideas about it.

We focus our attention in the topic of diet and its effects because of its importance in our life. Normally, what constitutes our main daily diet is made up from the combination of meat, fish, plants, and probably herbs, salt, oils, etc. In the past, many of these diets had cultural/traditional base and were not sufficiently nutritional. However, during the last decades, these diets have been improved by adding the missing element of nutrition. This led to the creation of the field of nutrition. Now days, nutrition has been recognized as an important and complex field because of the chemical processes involved during food’s preparation. Furthermore, these processes could become even more complex when we take into account the fact that people use medicines and supplements. It is possible that because of that, harmful side effects for humans can be generated. However, in spite of such risks, to the best of our knowledge, there are no quantitative models associated with these chemical processes available. Therefore, it is important to pay more attention and understand better what is going on during these processes. It seems that a university environment could be the ideal place to do that. Now may be is the right time to think about introducing the fields of food chemistry and nutrition as a university program with courses and related research activities. There is no doubt that the wealthy food industry and whatever is related to it, may be the gold mine for supporting research in these fields and could help to open new windows of knowledge. In FKW, we have created a graphical qualitative model that shows some kind of relationship between diet and its effects. However, in order to create a more serious and sustainable research activity about these issues; we are proposing the creation a university research program, discussed briefly at the end of this presentation. This program probably will be the first of its kind and will benefit students, faculty, the food industry, and most importantly humanity.

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