"Avoidable deaths due to poor diets have grown by 15 percent since 2010 and poor diets are now responsible for a quarter of all adult deaths," Chair of the GNR's Independent Expert Group Renata Micha told AFP.
Higher-income countries had the highest intake of foods with harmful health impacts like red meat, dairy and sugary drinks.Consumption of harmful foods is on the rise, the report found, with red and processed meat already at almost five times the maximum recommendation of one serving a week. In line with other estimates, the GNR calculated global food demand generated some 35 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in 2018.
So now we need a new diet?
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