NUCE –Milan, September 25, 2012
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Is unbalanced nutrition a social disability?
Carlo Alberto Rinolfi
and
Franca Castellini
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Differences that create solutions
An overview of MondoHonline:
when differences may provide new
proactive solutions
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Differences that create solutions
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• Disability leads to a new vision of life and a
different approach to problems and people’s
difficulties
• The unlimited opportunities offered by the Internet
allow to establish connections, to organize
proactive –networks and to stimulate relations.
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Differences that create solutions
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Three priority areas of social
handicap have been identified:
• Nutrition
• Health
• Learning
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TOWN
SUPPLY
CHAINS
OPEN
AND LINEAR
NATURE
CYCLES OF
REPRODUCTION
- CLOSED
- OPEN
ENVIRONMENTAL
RESOURCES
WASTE
POLLUTION
NEGATIVE EXTERNAL
FACTORS
NUTRI
TION
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HANDICAP
AND
FAMINE
CULTURAL
DOMINATION
OF NATURE
WARS
TECHNOLO-
GY
FINALIZED
TO
BUSINESS
POLLU-
TION
GROWING
POPULATION
Food shortage
Unhealthy food
anomia
Elaboration of
G. Bateson ‘s scheme
A presumptuous attitude towards nature is the
«original sin»
Of the civilized world
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ECOLOGICAL FOOD
IMBALANCE
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Safety
Quality
DIgnity GOOD
FOOD
ETICA
ECO
LOGICA
COOPE-
RATION
SUSTAINABLE
TECHNO-
LOGIES
RENEWAL
OF
RESOURCE
SUSTAINABLE
POPULATION
GROWTH
INTERACTION
WITH NATURE
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Culture may include the consequences of human actions on environment
THE NUTRITIONAL
BALANCE
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TO RESET THE SYSTEM IN EQUILIBRIUM
• A new step forward to a cultural development in all areas
of knowledge.
• The challenge: to switch over from aggression against
nature and environment to interactive and conscious
relationship with them, being aware of the consequences
of human actions.
• To reach this equilibrium, MondoHonline is acting on two
different levels:
Cultural: “the manifesto of a conscious nutrition”
Operational: “the technological platform of nutrition»
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Nutrizione e rigenerazione delle città
metropolitane - “una sfida necessaria”
Museo della storia naturale - Milano – Corso Venezia 55 – Aula Magna
4 maggio 2012
Il manifesto e la piattaforma nutrizionale
Direttivo Mondohonline
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THE TOOLS
THE ‘MANIFESTO’ AND THE PLATFORM FOR NUTRITION
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THE KEY IS «INNOVATION»
• The energy needed for the change is already inside our
mind
• The mental map governing our relationship with nature is
based on visions that can be modified.
• We are committed to stimulate and to spread the change
through the implementation of the :
“ manifesto of a conscious nutrition”
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Nutrition, Culture, Dignity
Manifesto for a conscious nutrition
1 Recognize Nature’s strength and respect the limits of Nature upon
human life
In its own progression
In harmony with the paces and ways of evolution
Controlling the effects of human influences
2. Make cities hospitable and liveable
Stop uncontrollable expansion
Ensure alimentary safety
Guarantee economical access to food
3. Regenerate resources
Lower down the ecologic footprint of metropolitan areas
Develop renewable energies
Activate production that saves resources
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4. Promote and improve rural areas
Promote youth entrepreneurship
Foster the distribution chain from nearby farmlands
Repopulate uncultivated and badly cultivated lands
5. Give value to differences
Acknowledge peculiarities of places of origin
Favour the local productive specializations
Facilitate the exchange from territories with the rest of the world
6. Accept and integrate peoples’ nutritional cultures
Start from the value of traditions
Promote nutritional alterations
Respect for the needs of autonomy
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7. Search for and give recognition to quality
Make consumers and producers Interact
Save original flavours
Respect seasonal rhythms
8. Support basic and applied research
Provide financial support for research
Thoroughness in experimentation
Seriousness in applying safety measures
9. Fight strongly against waste
Use only what is necessary
Restrict useless purchases
Stop the destruction of farm production
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Manifesto for a conscious nutrition
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Quality
Resources
Research
Nature Cultures Traditions
Metropolitan
cities
Waste
Country
Nutrition, Culture, Dignity Manifesto for a conscious nutrition
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AN EXTRAORDINARY OPPORTUNITY
• Milano has the professionalities, the competences, the
technologies needed to develop new services, new
behaviours, sustainable productions of new food processes
that have positive impact on enterprises and employment.
• We are committed to the creation of a ‘bridge’ to connect, to
spread and to exchange innovation in nutrition among world
countries
“the platform for nutrition”
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THE PLATFORM FOR NUTRITION
Agrofood
development
Environmental
equilibrium
Production, processing,distribution, consumption,
post-consumption
Cities, researchers, operators
information
researchers
Projects
transfer
exchange
know-how
Food safety
Food quality
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The road map to 2015
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MondoHonline: a professional, international
network that aims to improve and progressively
change Human Being lifestyle by increasing its
Wellness and Welfare.
Thank you.
www.mondohonline.it
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