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food and health

food and health

Have you ever thought about what they cook in school cafeterias (and how)?

Have you ever thought about what they cook in school cafeterias (and how)?

7 December 2022

The cost of good, healthy food doesn’t have to be unsustainable. The case of Qualità & Servizi, which prepares 9,000 meals a day for schools on the Florence plain. Qualità & Servizi is a public company that operates in the collective catering sector. It is fully owned by six communes on the Florence plain in …

Food & Health Insight  Microbiota: an indispensable ally for health

Food & Health Insight Microbiota: an indispensable ally for health

20 July 2022

When we speak about the relationship between food and health, we tend to think about what are the most suitable diet, the most wholesome ingredients, the recipes that are not too stodgy due to their high fat and sugar content, and the right balance of proteins, carbohydrates and other nutrients. The huge number of microscopic …

Decolonizing our food through deep medicine, with Rupa Marya

Decolonizing our food through deep medicine, with Rupa Marya

19 July 2022 Jack Coulton

How can we make a difference in the world through our daily actions? That’s the focus for our conference You, Me, Us on September 24.  To start building an idea of some of the different strategies that communities are adopting around the world we spoke to one of our conference guests, Rupa Marya, doctor at the …

A Biodiverse Diet Means a Healthy Diet

A Biodiverse Diet Means a Healthy Diet

22 May 2022

Preserving our invaluable heritage of food and agricultural biodiversity is not only good for the environment and ecosystems but also good for us and represents a way of taking care of ourselves.  Food biodiversity, in other words, the diversity of plants, animals, and other organisms that we eat, contributes to a healthy, varied diet.   …

Are you consuming food that is good for you and the planet? 

Are you consuming food that is good for you and the planet? 

21 December 2021

It’s time to put your food-fact knowledge to the test and clear some of the myths surrounding our favorite food. This is not about the five-second rule or if swallowing a watermelon seed will make a plant grow in your stomach, but to teach us the relationship between food that is healthy for us, the …

No substitute for honey

No substitute for honey

27 April 2021

How adulteration and bee malnutrition threaten the future of this food, the bees that make it, and all the other plants they pollinate. If the panda and the tiger were the symbols of wildlife conservation and environmentalism in the 1990s, then the figurehead for the contemporary Green movement is most certainly the bee. That’s mostly …

Polish Eagle Beans: A Pulse Beating Like a Warm Heart Across Continents

Polish Eagle Beans: A Pulse Beating Like a Warm Heart Across Continents

26 January 2021 Nata Paszkowska

Beans can link not only countries, but also continents, as is the case with with these Ark of Taste pulses from Poland; their social pulse links Poland and Brazil, with Latvia and Italy also taking playing a part in this bean music. The name of the bean variety Polska Fasola z Orzełkiem (PFO) literally means …

The UK Launches New Obesity Strategy: How Does it Compare with Measures Elsewhere?

The UK Launches New Obesity Strategy: How Does it Compare with Measures Elsewhere?

3 August 2020 Madeleine Coste

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the United Kingdom has launched a new Obesity strategy to fight the rising child and adult obesity problem in the country. Meanwhile, the European Union with its new Farm to Fork Strategy also has included the aim to reverse the rise in overweight and obesity rates across the EU. As global …

World Hunger is Getting Worse, and Africa Will Pay the Worst Consequences

World Hunger is Getting Worse, and Africa Will Pay the Worst Consequences

15 July 2020

The number of people who suffer from hunger is continuously increasing, reaching in 2019 close to 690 million, 8.9% of the world population. This is what emerges from the report on the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World – SOFI just published by the United Nations Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO), …

World Oceans Day: Vegetables of the Sea and their Role in Saving the Environment

World Oceans Day: Vegetables of the Sea and their Role in Saving the Environment

8 June 2020 Paula Barbeito

World Oceans Day is the day to raise awareness about the critical state of the oceans, to highlight their deep connection to our daily lives, and to inspire action to protect and use marine resources in a sustainable way.  When we talk about the oceans and their protection, we tend to firstly think of whales, …

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