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...In India and China, the world’s most populous countries, obesity rates were relatively low but still showed sharp rises over the 32-year period covered in the study....
...It would also require a shift to “more healthy diets”, such as eating more fruit, vegetables and pulses, while cutting down on consumption of animal products in industrialised nations....
...UPFs include products such as microwave meals, cereals, and sandwich meats, as well as healthier-appearing options, such as low-fat yoghurts, protein bars, and meat alternatives....
...Returning to a poultry-free diet, of the type that prevailed in the UK before the second world war, is highly unlikely: the chicken is definitely out of the coop....
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...Yet, it is not so much the additives themselves that are the problem but the diets associated with them....
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...In 2015, PepsiCo removed aspartame from Diet Pepsi and replaced it with stevia following consumer concerns over its effects, and after a steady fall in sales of the diet drink....
...Making products more appealing to health-conscious consumers comes at a difficult time for the industry, which originally benefited from the tail-end of a stock market boom following a period of record-low...
...Work in New Zealand has shown a difference of up to 20 per cent between low- and high-emitting animals.”...
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...Because our climate conundrum is a lot like diet and exercise: we sweat and starve in January so that we can “afford” to do unhealthy things in December....
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