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Food Compass: a new food scoring system | Professor Dariush Mozaffarian

The Proof with Simon Hill

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The Birth of the Recommended Daily Allowances

The first period of nutrition science from 1930 to about 1950 was really focused on vitamins and making sure we have the right vitamins and food. The human population went up 400% in 100 years so there were fears that a billion people would starve because they didn't have enough food. Food sector largely did what we asked them to do by creating shelf stable cheap starchy calories that were fortified with vitamins. We are now shifting away from those 20th century priorities toward 21st century priorities which is brain health longevity gut health good immune functions less heart disease less diabetes, he says.

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