Increasing rates of diabetes & heart disease are an inevitable result of a broken food & health system

 

Beyond feeding and toward nourishment

Poor diets constitute a greater public health risk internationally than unsafe sex, and alcohol, drug and tobacco use combined, the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition concluded in a 2016 report. Examining a number of low-middle income countries, the panel found that current food systems are failing citizens because of an emphasis on feeding people, rather than nourishing them.