Healthy diets and a healthy planet

What we eat has always been a central component of culture, wherever in the world we live. Since time immemorial humans have eaten diets based on what was consumed locally, and, whatever they consisted of, diets generally were seen as 'healthy' and 'wholesome'.¹ Not until the twentieth century were scientific diet research institutes established, but these were little noticed by other scientists until John Boyd Orr, the first Director of Aberdeen's Rowett Research Institute (later Lord Boyd Orr, the first Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation), published in 1936 his considerable study of the appalling levels of malnutrition among the British people, regardless of economic status;² it was on the basis of this that the wartime coalition government invited Boyd Orr to design a scientifically based diet with the aim of keeping the UK population healthy during the Second World War.

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