Health Insight: The Atlantic diet – how it compares to its Mediterranean counterpart, and what benefits it might have
UK-based dietitian TAIBAT (TAI) IBITOYE looks at what research shows about the so-called ‘Atlantic diet’…
Better food for world’s poor could hike climate-changing emissions
Rome, ItalyThomson Reuters Foundation To feed their people a healthy diet, countries from Ethiopia to India may need to hike their climate-changing emissions – a shift only possible if richer nations simultaneously curb theirs, a United Nations flagship report on hunger said Monday. Increasing emissions to provide poor children, in particular, with more protein or […]
Vegetarian diets not always the most climate-friendly, researchers say
RomeThomson Reuters Foundation It may be possible to help tackle climate change while still munching on the occasional bacon sandwich or slurping a few oysters, a new study suggested on Tuesday. Scientists found that diets in which meat, fish or dairy products were consumed only once a day would leave less of a footprint on […]
UN flags need to cut meat to curb land use impact on global warming
London/Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Global meat consumption must fall to curb global warming, reduce growing strains on land and water and improve food security, health and biodiversity, a United Nations report on the effects of climate change concluded. Although the report stopped short of explicitly advocating going meat free, it called for big changes to farming and […]