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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Medical report on food consumption evades issues of choice and equality

Medical report on food consumption evades issues of choice and equality

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published Published on Jan 26, 2019   modified Modified on Jan 26, 2019
-The Telegraph

The world can move towards meaningful health only when dietary interventions and models are made more representative

The way to the heart is, apparently, through the stomach. Would that, then, mean that food habits all over the world have to change, given that cardiovascular diseases — the result of an unhealthy diet — are a leading cause of death around the globe? The findings of a report compiled by a group of 37 experts and published in the medical journal, Lancet, seem to point in that direction. Feeding a world population that will reach 10 billion by 2050 would, it argues, require a drastic shift in global dietary habits. The report also goes on to outline what this ‘diet plan’ should consist of. In order to prevent 11 million premature deaths each year, sugar and red meat must be cut down drastically and the consumption of whole grain, fruits, vegetables and nuts must be increased. These items would make up the bulk of the ‘Planetary Health Diet’. Nutrition is a serious concern: three billion people are malnourished and a significant number of people feast on fast food. The objectives of the study are thus noble. The report goes on to reiterate the value of plant-based diets and the reduction in food wastage, both of which hold the key to the dietary transformations that have been endorsed.

However, the report seems to have evaded important questions concerning choice and equality. Diverse culinary traditions define cultures around the world, all of which have their own versions of sustainable, healthy diets. Is a uniform diet for a diverse world then feasible? What would, for instance, be the fate of communities for whom meat is integral to survival?

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The Telegraph, 25 January, 2019, https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/medical-report-on-food-consumption-evades-issues-of-choice-and-equality/cid/1682669?ref=health_home-template


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