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THE PRESENT STATE OF THE ROMANIAN AGRO-ALIMENTARY
CONSUMPTION
Anca Monica Brata
University of Oradea, Faculty of Environmental Protection
ABSTRACT
The alimentary consumption is not and cannot be identical in the countries and areas of the
entire world, no matter how attractive the international consumption patterns would be. The
specialists in alimentation and the international organisms with responsibilities in this field
recommend the remodelling of the alimentary consumption and encourage having a healthy
alimentation, based on each nation’s accumulations and showing their value as being a
cultural nutritional thesaurus. It is considered that the alimentary education of the population
and the improvement of the health insurance systems can contribute to the limitation of
hunger.
Amongst the well developed countries and the developing ones, there are great gaps
regarding the average consumption per inhabitant, but the deficiencies are especially
structural and qualitative.
Keywords: alimentation, annual and monthly consumption.
INTRODUCTION
The humanity develops continuously. This is a fact that cannot be ignored, which modifies
the humans’ way of thinking and behaviour. This evolutional process takes place in every
field of life, including the alimentary one.
The evolution of the human species implied permanent changes in the alimentary
behaviour, in the alimentation manner, but also in the process of obtaining alimentary
products. The increase of people’s culture and civilization, the technical and scientific
discoveries, the research in the alimentation and alimentary field, all these have contributed
in a great extent to these changes. The diversity of the alimentary products, the
quantification of their metabolic effects and relating the aliments to the population health
state, have led to a need of a careful design of alimentary products, that takes into account
the nutritious value of aliments and the expected effect on alimentation.
The problem of insuring a sufficient level of the population’s alimentation from the
quantitative, qualitative and structural point of view has become for most countries and for
the governmental and non-governmental organisms – national, regional and international – a
more powerful preoccupation in the last half of the century. This preoccupation is the
consequence of the conscious knowing of the connection between health and the access to
various sources of food. Because the expansion and the limits of the access to the sources of
alimentation differ from an area to another, from a country to another and even within the
same country from an area to another, the taking of some measures regarding the
amelioration of the alimentation matter becomes essential [Bulgaru, 2001].
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