Modernity Food: Between Insecurity and Overconsumption

Abstract

After centuries of malnutrition, decurrent food shortages in the world, today, in industrialized societies, diners’ contemporaries, the dominant concern is what to eat and in what proportions. The reality is confronted

with the situation of health, with nutritional status in society, theabundance and well-being and also with malnutrition caused by theabundance. The term food security has acquired different meanings.Food systems have diversified to other ecosystems, and integrated hyperspecialized extensive systems of food production on an internationalscale. The world food production increased, while missing numerousplant and animal varieties that constituted the basis for much of diets.With the increase in production and consumption of foods an expansionof food repertoire was caused. As consequences of this we point thehomogenization of food and lack of assess of the impact of consumptionon the individuals’ health. There is an artificiality of food and itsingestion is assumed full of risks, resulting in a considerable consumeruncertainty, mistrust and anxiety.