Ways to Reduce Food Waste and Promote Healthy Eating by Hannah Joy on April 15, 2021 at 5:06 PM
Food waste has drastically increased in the last few years. Therefore, its necessary to follow few strategies to reduce food waste, reveals a new study.
Food waste and obesity are major problems in developed countries. They are both caused by an overabundance of food, but strategies to reduce one can inadvertently increase the other. A broader perspective can help identify ways to limit food waste while also promoting healthy nutrition, two University of Illinois researchers suggest. You can reduce food waste by obtaining less or eating more. Our concern was that if people are reducing waste by eating more, what does that mean for nutrition? And how do we think about these tradeoffs in a way that promotes both good nutrition outcomes and good food waste outcomes? Public policies have generally focused on either obesity or food waste, but rarely considered them