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| 1999 || {{w|Undernutrition}} || || Notable comment || American humanitarian {{w|Fred Cuny}} writes: "The distribution of food within a country is a political issue. Governments in most countries give priority to urban areas, since that is where the most influential and powerful families and enterprises are usually located. The government often neglects subsistence farmers and rural areas in general. The more remote and underdeveloped the area the less likely the government will be to effectively meet its needs. Many agrarian policies, especially the pricing of agricultural {{w|commodities}}, discriminate against rural areas. Governments often keep prices of basic grains at such artificially low levels that subsistence producers cannot accumulate enough capital to make investments to improve their production. Thus, they are effectively prevented from getting out of their precarious situation."<ref>{{w|Fred Cuny}}–Famine, Conflict, and Response: a Basic Guide; Kumarian Press, 1999.</ref> ||
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| 1999 || {{w|Overnutrition}} || {{w|Macronutrient}} || Medical development || The {{w|obesity paradox}} (excluding cholesterol paradox) was first described in overweight and obese people undergoing {{w|hemodialysis}},<ref name=Schmidt2007>{{cite journal |doi=10.1111/j.1525-139X.2007.00349.x |title=CARDIOVASCULAR AND SURVIVAL PARADOXES IN DIALYSIS PATIENTS: Obesity-Survival Paradox-Still a Controversy? |year=2007 |last1=Schmidt |first1=Darren S. |last2=Salahudeen |first2=Abdulla K. |journal=Seminars in Dialysis |volume=20 |issue=6 |pages=486–92 |pmid=17991192}}</ref> ||
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| 2000 || {{w|Overnutrition}} || {{w|Macronutrient}} || Organization || {{w|National Obesity Forum}} is founded as a British independent professional organization which campaigns for a more interventional approach to obesity.<ref>{{cite web |title=About the NOF |url=http://www.nationalobesityforum.org.uk/index.php/about-the-nof.html |website=nationalobesityforum.org.uk |accessdate=15 December 2019}}</ref> || {{w|United Kingdom}}
