3 Research Questions Could Hold the Key to Sustainable Eating
Sarah Reinhardt,
Senior Analyst, Food Systems and Health | March 16, 2021, 5:02 pm EDT
When it comes to healthy eating, there’s a lot we already know.
Just take a look at the scientific report issued by the
2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, the group of scientific experts behind the newly released
Dietary Guidelines for Americans. At 835 pages, the report spans a rigorous review of current research on dozens of topics, from whether eating peanuts early in life reduces the likelihood of peanut allergies (it probably does), to how much added sugar we can eat and still maintain a healthy diet (way less than what we’re eating now). It also outlines the broad contours of a healthy diet, which has changed little from past editions of the