the roadmap for healthy, sustainable diets begins

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Journal discussed the perspectives to attain healthy and sustainable diets.

Study: Toward healthy and sustainable diets for the 21st century: Importance of sociocultural and economic considerations. Image Credit: Okrasiuk/Shutterstock.comStudy: Toward healthy and sustainable diets for the 21st century: Importance of sociocultural and economic considerations. Image Credit: Okrasiuk/Shutterstock.com

Backgrounds

Attaining equitable, healthy, and sustainable diets is a defining challenge for food systems. The EAT-Lancet report underscored the importance of dietary shifts required to remain within planetary boundaries.

Besides, it is necessary to understand the feasibility of changes needed at agricultural, sociocultural, and economic levels. In the present study, the authors discussed the various perspectives to

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Food Deserts: Causes, Effects, and Solutions

Food deserts are communities that have poor access to healthy, affordable foods (1, 2).

Also known as healthy food priority areas, food deserts are concentrated in low-income and historically marginalized areas throughout the United States (1, 2, 3, 4).

In food deserts, healthy foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, dairy, peas, beans, meat, and fish are often expensive or unobtainable. The lack of access to healthy foods in these communities translates to health disparities and high rates of chronic disease (4, 5, 6).

This article examines the causes, health effects, and potential

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