Public communication of chronic lifestyle risks is generally non-transparent and potentially misleading. A reasonable idea to communicate easily comprehensible the consequences of healthy and unhealthy behavior for health is to express daily effects of lifestyle factors as changes in the speed with which one ages and thus one’s length of life.

Sustainability has become fundamental to many global policy agendas in areas relating to human impact on the earth’s resources, such as with food production and consumption. Issues relating to environmental dimension of sustainable food production and consumption include consumer behaviors, food labeling and food security as well as land use, waste and climate change. Research conducted in these areas has shown that consumers could face dramatically reduced food choices in the future unless much more is done to lower the environmental impact of current food consumption patterns.

A growing body of research suggests that the first 1,000 days of a child’s life – i.e. the nine months spent in the womb and the first two years after birth – are vital to their long-term health. This period is thought to permanently affect everything from their chances of developing chronic diseases in old age to their future weight and life expectancy. It has been shown that chronic adult diseases are "programmed" by malnutrition in the womb. In the Western world, many babies remain poorly nourished either because their mothers’ diets are unbalanced in macronutrients and deficient in micronutrients, or because their mothers are excessively thin or overweight. In the developing world, many girls and young women are chronically malnourished.