Netherlands is country with most plentiful,healthy food
The Netherlands nudged past France and Switzerland as the country with the most nutritious, plentiful and healthy food,while the United States and Japan failed to make it into the top 20,a new ranking released by Oxfam showed.
Chad came in last on the list of 125 nations,behind Ethiopia and Angola,in the food index from the international relief and development organization.
“The Netherlands have created a good market that enables people to get enough to eat.Prices are relatively low and stable and the type of food people are eating is balanced,”Deborah Haddon,a senior researcher at Oxfam who compiled the results,said in an interview .
Oxfam ranked the nations on the availability, quality and affordability of food and dietary health.It also looked at the percentage of underweight children,food diversity and access to clean water,as well as negative health outcomes such as obesity and diabetes.
European countries dominated the top of the ranking,but Australia squeezed into the top 12,tying with Ireland,Italy,Portugal and Luxembourg at No.8.
Although the United States has the most affordable and good quality food,high levels of obesity and diabetes pushed the nation into 21st place in the ranking,tying with Japan,which scored poorly on the relative price of food compared to other goods.
The Netherlands got top marks for its low food prices and diabetes levels,while Chad had the worst score for the cost of food in the country and the number of underweight children - 34 percent.
世界各國食物質(zhì)量大排名 荷蘭居首
牛津饑荒救濟(jì)委員會(huì)發(fā)布的新排名顯示,荷蘭超過法國和瑞士,成為食物最有營(yíng)養(yǎng)、最豐富和最健康的國家,而美國和日本卻未能擠進(jìn)前20名。
該機(jī)構(gòu)的食物排名顯示,出現(xiàn)在排行榜上的125個(gè)國家中,非洲國家乍得排在最后一名,落后于埃塞俄比亞和安哥拉。
匯總這些結(jié)果的牛津饑荒救濟(jì)委員會(huì)的高級(jí)研究員德伯拉•哈爾頓說:“荷蘭營(yíng)造了一個(gè)良好的市場(chǎng),讓人們有足夠的食物可以吃。食物價(jià)格也相對(duì)低廉和穩(wěn)定,人們所吃的食物種類也比較平衡。”
牛津饑荒救濟(jì)委員會(huì)從獲得食物的難易程度、食物的品質(zhì)和價(jià)位以及膳食健康等方面來給各個(gè)國家排名。它還考慮了體重偏低的兒童比例、食物的多樣性、獲得清潔水源的難易程度,以及肥胖和糖尿病等負(fù)面健康結(jié)果。
歐洲國家占據(jù)排名前列,不過澳大利亞也成功躋身前12名,和愛爾蘭、意大利、葡萄牙和盧森堡并列排在第八名。
盡管美國的食物價(jià)格和質(zhì)量都是最好的,但是美國肥胖和糖尿病的高發(fā)率使美國排在第21名,與日本并排,日本排名不佳是因?yàn)槭称穬r(jià)格相對(duì)其他商品偏高。
荷蘭排名居首是因?yàn)槭澄飪r(jià)格低和糖尿病發(fā)病率低,而乍得排名最低是因?yàn)槭澄飪r(jià)格太高和體重不足兒童的數(shù)量太多(占據(jù)34%)。