Tag: EAT-Lancet

• Thursday, April 4th 2019 - 09:13 UTC

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

  

  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”.