Nutrition & Wellness
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Insects can contribute to food security
Insects are going to have a major contribution to food and feed security says Priyadarsanan Dharma Rajan, senior fellow at Bengaluru based Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE). Insects comprise at least 85% of biodiversity and play the most important roles in the Read More...
Healthy diets? Mali, Chad, Senegal and Sierra Leone beat the West
For your healthy diet, it is better to live in West Africa than in the West. According to a study published in The Lancet Global Health people in Mali, Chad, Senegal, and Sierra Leone enjoy healthier diets than their counterparts in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan or Canada. A Read More...
The First Store That Runs on Its Own Food Waste
Sainsbury’s -- the second-largest chain of supermarkets in the UK. Sainsbury’s has managed to achieve zero waste to landfill since June 2013. This means that all its store waste is diverted from landfills by donating, recycling, or turning it into Read More...
10 Things You Didn't Know About Food Waste
Roughly one-third of the food produced for human consumption gets lost or wasted globally. Whereas developing countries suffer more losses during agricultural production, due to problems such as poor post-harvest management, lack of suitable infrastructure and inadequate processing and Read More...
Turning point in food history, Americans adopt healthier diet, calorie consumption declining
Nearly 40 years ago federal statistics began to track the amount of calories consumed daily by the typical American adult. And it's now for the first time since that moment, that a "sustained decline" is discernible in those amounts. The New York Times analyzed several data sources on food Read More...
Turning beer into biofuel
If coffee beans can be used for green energy, why not beer? That's what New Zealand-based DB Export Brewtroleum is doing. Biofuel made of its natural beer waste is available at Gull pumps across the country. The biofuel is made by distilling the leftover yeast to create 95 percent pure ethanol. Read More...
Food powder made from expired produce may help end world hunger
Taking dumpster diving to the next level. That's the idea of a group of international masters students who created FoPo Food Powder, a company that collects cheap and near-expired produce and spray dries it into a powder, extending its shelf life for two years. This is an innovative solution to Read More...
First plant-based culinary academy in Asia offers courses for preparing healthy and nutritious foods
With the overwhelming health and environmental benefits of a plant-based diet, there’s a growing need for education. Vegan chef Matthew Kenney is opening Asia’s first-ever plant-based culinary academy. The academy offers month-long courses. The curriculum is based on the use of whole, organic, Read More...
Even The Wall Street Journal raises the question: Can organic agriculture feed the world?
It’s a sign of the increasing strength of the organic movement that The Wall Street Journal—a reliable stalwart of the establishment and the status quo—joins the debate about whether organic agriculture can feed the world. Yes it can, says Catherine Badgley, an associate professor in the Read More...
Steel factory becomes world’s largest indoor vertical farm
An old steel factory can become the world’s largest indoor vertical farm producing healthy food all year round. That shows that the opportunities to increase food production in a sustainable way are virtually endless. AeroFarms’ new 69,000 sq ft (6,410 sq m) facility in Newark, New Jersey will Read More...