Description:Nutrition is one of the most obvious external factors that determine the ecology of an individual, his health and active longevity, the state of the human population as a whole, its preservation and reproduction.
The qualitative and quantitative composition of food is closely related to the natural and climatic conditions in certain regions of the world and the level of socio-economic development of a particular state. At the same time, the higher the socio-economic level, the more equate nature of the nutrition of various groups of the population. The nature of nutrition has a pronounced national character, largely depends on the religious and cultural traditions of the population and is closely interconnected with the style and way of life and the level of economic income.
The end of the 2nd millennium of the existence of modern civilization was marked by explosive changes throughout the world that affected the entire biosphere of the Earth and all of humanity.
Firstly, this is a population explosion - a sharp increase in the population, which is most clearly manifested in third world countries - Asia, Africa, South America. In general, only for the period from 1970 to 1990. The population of the Earth almost doubled: from 3.6 billion in 1970 to 6.5 billion in 1990. In 1997, the population of the planet increased by 82 million people.
Secondly, by the beginning of the 3rd millennium, the world was on the verge of a global ecological crisis directly related to co-evolution, i.e., a discrepancy between the rates of evolution of the organic world of the planet and the evolution of modern human civilization. If for the organic world evolutionary development takes periods of time calculated in geological epochs, then for human society they can fit into tens of years. A sharp and uneven acceleration of the socio-economic development of mankind can lead to the degradation of the natural environment, since techno-anthropogenic environmental factors have become so powerful, global that they can cause a planetary environmental catastrophe.