Two billion people "over-nourished": too much sugar, sodium and short on fruit, nuts and whole grains

Two billion people “over-nourished”: too much sugar, sodium and short on fruit, nuts and whole grains

Thursday, April 4th 2019 - 09:13 UTC

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One in five deaths globally are linked to poor diet, experts said on Thursday, warning that overconsumption of sugar, salt and meat was killing millions of people every year. The United Nations estimates that nearly a billion people worldwide are malnourished, while nearly two billion are “over-nourished”. Read full article

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bushpilot
Easily, 75% of this number, or 1.5 billion, are Americans. No doubt.
Apr 04th, 2019 - 03:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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@bushpilot

If the majority is sustaining themselves on the Garbage-Quality Food; it means that plenty of Healthy Food is available to the rest of the world.

It's not that the world is going hungry due to the Food-Shortage. It's going hungry due to the inadequate+inefficient distribution, to the destinations-in-need - in fact, a shortage of infrastructure - causes World-Hunger!
Apr 06th, 2019 - 03:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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