Published: 9 April 2019
Last updated: 5 March 2024
Israelis are paragons of healthy eating (Guardian)
CATRHERINE HEZSNER: Cultural traditions, attitudes toward food and the body, and the ready availability of fresh ingredients are key to a nutritious and healthy diet
Bad diets killing more people globally than tobacco, study finds (Guardian)
Eating and drinking better could prevent one in five early deaths. Countries that have a mainly Mediterranean diet eat more fruit, vegetables, nuts and legumes, say researchers, naming Lebanon, Israel and Iran among the better performers.
“But no country has an optimal level of consumption of all the health foods. Even in countries that have a Mediterranean diet, the current intake of many other dietary factors is not optimal.”
The diets cutting one in five lives short every year (BBC)
The food we eat is putting 11 million of us into an early grave each year, an influential study shows. The analysis, in the Lancet, found that our daily diet is a bigger killer than smoking and is now involved in one in five deaths around the world.
