The role of a starch-based diet in solving existential challenges for the 21st century
Diet plays a fundamental role in our major chronic diseases, in climate change, and in our resistance to infectious diseases. The eating patterns that best support the health of people and our planet are based on traditional starchy staples. Historically, a wide variety of starches have provided the...
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| description | Diet plays a fundamental role in our major chronic diseases, in climate change, and in our resistance to infectious diseases. The eating patterns that best support the health of people and our planet are based on traditional starchy staples. Historically, a wide variety of starches have provided the bulk of the food for most of the people who have walked our Earth. For example, rice has been food for Asians, corn for Central Americans, potatoes for people of the Andes, and for the Middle East, “the bread basket of the world,” food has meant wheat and barley. Focusing on our ethnicities can expose altruistic natures, and before it is too late, allow us to make the change from destructive animal-food based-diets to plant-food based-diets; ones that are health-supporting for people and our planet. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-576167eba5f746b48e3b05c4c15fd69e2023-09-28T10:00:47ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Nutrition2296-861X2023-09-011010.3389/fnut.2023.12604551260455The role of a starch-based diet in solving existential challenges for the 21st centuryJohn McDougallDiet plays a fundamental role in our major chronic diseases, in climate change, and in our resistance to infectious diseases. The eating patterns that best support the health of people and our planet are based on traditional starchy staples. Historically, a wide variety of starches have provided the bulk of the food for most of the people who have walked our Earth. For example, rice has been food for Asians, corn for Central Americans, potatoes for people of the Andes, and for the Middle East, “the bread basket of the world,” food has meant wheat and barley. Focusing on our ethnicities can expose altruistic natures, and before it is too late, allow us to make the change from destructive animal-food based-diets to plant-food based-diets; ones that are health-supporting for people and our planet.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2023.1260455/fulldietchronic diseaseclimate changeheart diseaseCOVID-19greenhouse gas |
| spellingShingle | John McDougall The role of a starch-based diet in solving existential challenges for the 21st century Frontiers in Nutrition diet chronic disease climate change heart disease COVID-19 greenhouse gas |
| title | The role of a starch-based diet in solving existential challenges for the 21st century |
| title_full | The role of a starch-based diet in solving existential challenges for the 21st century |
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| title_short | The role of a starch-based diet in solving existential challenges for the 21st century |
| title_sort | role of a starch based diet in solving existential challenges for the 21st century |
| topic | diet chronic disease climate change heart disease COVID-19 greenhouse gas |
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