Food is seen on a table at a restaurant at the port of El Masnou, near Barcelona May 16, 2008.Reuter...

1. World's diet worsening with globalization, major study finds:
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Food is seen on a table at a restaurant at the port of El Masnou, near Barcelona May 16, 2008.
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ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The world's diet has deteriorated substantially in the last
two decades, a leading nutrition expert said on Monday, citing one of the largest studies available on
international eating habits.
Poor countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia are seeing the fastest increases in unhealthy food
consumption, while the situation has improved slightly in Western Europe and North America, said
Dariush Mozaffarian, Dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts
University.
Between 1990 and 2010, middle and low income countries saw consumption of unhealthy foods
increase dramatically, Mozaffarian said, citing information in a study he co-authored for the March
edition of The Lancet Global Health journal.
The "globalization" of western diets - where a small group of food and agriculture companies have
disproportionate power to decide what is produced - is partially causing the shift to unhealthy
eating, Mozaffarian said.
Processed foods high in sugar, fat and starch are driving the growth of unhealthy foods.
The study reviewed 325 dietary surveys, representing almost 90 percent of the world's population, in
what is thought to be the largest study yet of international eating habits.
China and India recorded some of the highest increases in unhealthy food consumption, the study
said. Some countries in Latin America and Europe saw an increase in both healthy and unhealthy
food consumption.
Between 1990 and 2014, roughly the same period as the study, the number of hungry people
worldwide dropped by 209 million to 805 million, according to the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture
Organisation (FAO).
"Most global nutrition efforts have focused on calories - getting starchy staples to people,"
Mozaffarian told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "We diet meal plan need to focus on the quality
of calories for poor countries, not just the quantity."
Old people displayed better eating habits than the young in most of the 187 countries covered in the
study.
This is a worrying development, Mozaffarian said, as rates of obesity and chronic diseases like

2. diabetes are set to increase if young people continue eating unhealthy foods.
"Young people are growing up with much worse diets than their parents or grandparents," he said.
(Reporting By Chris Arsenault; Editing by Ros Russell)
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