Inadequate intake of fruits, #vegetables & whole grains coupled with excessive amounts of red or processed #meat, refined grains, and sugary & salty foods & drinks drive chronic cardiometabolic #diseases & millions of early #deaths around the globe… (1/x) doi.org/10.1038/s430... #nutrition #diets

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(2/x) Eating nutritious #diets is almost impossible for most, as people are constantly surrounded by cheap, calorie-dense, salty, fatty, sugary and cleverly advertised foods & drinks. Our current #FoodEnvironment (the availability, quality, cost & #marketing of foods) … doi.org/10.1038/s430...
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(3/x) Our #FoodEnvironment promotes eating behaviours that are unhealthy & worsen #health inequities. Ideally the cause of a health problem should drive interventions that address that cause. But in the case of overconsumption & poor #diets, we traditionally failed to do so… doi.org/10.1038/s430...
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(4/x) Instead of focusing on the #FoodEnvironment, most interventions focused on exhorting people to change their eating behaviour. This has been shown time & again to have limited impact: doi.org/10.1038/s430... #diets #nutrition #health

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