{"id":61866,"date":"2022-02-12T18:53:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T23:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61866"},"modified":"2022-02-12T18:53:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T23:53:46","slug":"thinking-food-whats-healthy-and-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61866","title":{"rendered":"Thinking food: What\u2019s \u2018healthy\u2019 and \u2018sustainable\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thinking food: What\u2019s \u2018healthy\u2019 and \u2018sustainable\u2019?<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
\u00a0What constitutes a \u2018healthy diet\u2019 has been endlessly debated and the advice on eating changes almost year on year. With the dangerous rise in non-communicable diseases (such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes) which has occurred over the last fifty or so years \u2013 significantly accelerating from the 1980s onwards<\/a>\u00a0with increasing industrialised food production \u2013 it has never been more important to think about what you eat.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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The rise of veganism has brought a sea-change in how many people eat, even for those who haven\u2019t fully given themselves over to a wholly plant-based diet. \u2018Veganuary<\/a>\u2019, which started in 2014, has been a compelling campaign to change people\u2019s diets, urging them to forego any animal-based food. Veganism is increasing in interest \u2013\u00a0a recent YouGov poll (commissioned by Veganuary)<\/a>\u00a0found that 36% of adults thought that it was \u2018admirable\u2019, which implies it is something that many people may think about doing, but only the remarkable would pursue.<\/p>\n

Healthy diets don\u2019t come from the overconsumption of processed foods and that goes for veganism as much as for any type of diet. The vegan market has opened up a huge door to industrial food producers and out of it has come a raft of ultra-processed foods: vegan \u2018cheese\u2019, fake meat and products that are heavy on salt and additives. Have a good hard look at the Impossible Burger which garnered so much attention when it was introduced \u2013 its key ingredient is a \u2018vat-grown, genetically engineered form of the heme iron<\/a>\u2019 called Soy leghemoglobin. It\u2019s important to remember that just because it\u2019s vegan, doesn\u2019t make ultra-processed food healthy.<\/p>\n

A vegan or \u2018plant-based\u2019 diet, as it is often called, eschews meat, dairy, fish and bugs as well (which are eaten in many parts of the world)…<\/p>\n

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Thinking food: What\u2019s \u2018healthy\u2019 and \u2018sustainable\u2019? \u00a0What constitutes a \u2018healthy diet\u2019 has been endlessly debated and the advice on eating changes almost year on year. With the dangerous rise in non-communicable diseases (such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes) which has occurred over the last fifty or so years \u2013 significantly accelerating from the 1980s onwards\u00a0with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[30708,930,5720,2479,6867],"class_list":["post-61866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-alicia-miller","tag-healthy-food","tag-industrial-agriculture","tag-sustainable-food","tag-sustainable-food-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61867,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61866\/revisions\/61867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}