Medical Xpress February 15, 2025
Healthy eating sounds deceptively simple—just eat more fruits and vegetables and avoid junk food, right? However, healthy eating really isn’t easy.
A new report illustrates how ubiquitous unhealthy foods are, how aggressively they are promoted and how hard it is to access healthy foods in places we spend our time.
We are part of a team of 18 nutrition and food policy experts from across Canada who looked at research from the past five years to expose the environmental factors that influence what people in Canada buy and eat. We explored many different factors, like the quality of food, food marketing practices and what foods are available in places like hospitals, schools and grocery stores.
The report is part of...