By Ellen Wulfhorst
WASHINGTON, May 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – From caramelized zucchini bites to candied crickets, scientists have come up with a foolproof way to encourage healthy eating – don’t call it healthy.
Convincing people to eat plant-rich diets, avoid junk food and care about nutrition is seen as critical to global human health and tackling climate change, which itself threatens droughts and extreme weather that disrupt food supplies.
For poor diet has now overtaken smoking as the world’s biggest killer, according to the latest Global Burden of Disease study, causing 20 percent of deaths globally in 2017.
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