Food Systems Summit wants to hear from youPosted in:Food Systems, SustainabilityVisit the website The United Nations Food Systems Summit, an international event to make plans for the transformation of the global food system to align with the Sustainable Development Goals, is set to take place in September this year. If you have an interest in the food system, the Summit wants to hear from you.… read more...
WWF encourage planet-based dietPosted in:Diet, Food Systems, Health, Nutrition, Production, Sustainability, Vegetable Food SourcesRead the report The WWF report Bending the Curve: The Restorative Power of Planet-Based Diets joins other efforts to demonstrate the negative health and environmental consequences of our current way of producing and consuming food, while proposing ways to turn this around. The report opens with the assertion that our food system must provide healthy,… read more...
Trends in undernourishment show promisePosted in:Affordability, Diet, Food Systems, Health, Mortality, NutritionRead the article A study of undernourishment in 76 countries found positive results, but not all global regions are progressing at the same rate. Although overnutrition continues to grow globally, undernutrition rates are decreasing. Undernutrition currently affects more than 800 million people, either as protein-energy malnutrition or micronutrient deficiencies. The researchers used data from 1991-2013 from the FAO and the World Bank to analyse both undernutrition and related factors. The… read more...
Peas pleasePosted in:Diet, Health, Nutrition, Production, Sustainability, Vegetable Food Sources, WasteRead the article Food Foundation in the UK are gaining traction with their ‘Peas Please: Making a pledge for more veg’ initiative, the results of which were recently described in Nutrition Bulletin. Despite a historically growing UK market for fruit, which has increased by around 50% since 1970, vegetable purchasing was seen to slowly decline over the same period. The common perceptions of vegetables as boring or not… read more...
Comparing apples with potatoes: the Vego-guidePosted in:Energy Consumption, Food Systems, Production, Sustainability, Vegetable Food SourcesRead the article Researchers in Sweden have designed a tool for comparing the environmental impacts of different plant foods. The tool is designed for interested consumers who want to know more about the environmental implications of these foods in their diets. Using life-cycle analysis data for 90 plant foods, the Vego-guide considers the climate, biodiversity, water use and pesticide use… read more...
Calcium comparisons between dairy, soy and almond beveragesPosted in:Animal Food Sources, Diet, Health, Nutrition, Vegetable Food SourcesRead the article Research in the journal Current Developments in Nutrition has found that almond beverages were inferior to both milk and a calcium-fortified soy drink for bone health. The New Zealand researchers fed rats diets supplemented with either milk, or a soy-based or an almond-based drink. They analysed the amount of the liquid and feed consumed, as well as indicators of bone health and body composition. Fortified with calcium,… read more...
World Wildlife Fund release planet-based diets modelPosted in:Food Systems, SustainabilityVisit the site On a country and diet basis, you can use the WWF model to set the amount of different food groups in a diet and see the caloric, mortality and environmental impacts of the new diet if adopted by the entire country. The model takes previously published figures as its basis for the mortality and environmental impacts, and national dietary guidelines to give recommended… read more...