Health professionals call for new systems to reduce food insecurity - Health professionals have called on leaders at COP26 to prioritise changing food systems to reduce their effect on the climate, as well as to prevent deaths
Health professionals have called on leaders attending the UN Climate Change conference in Scotland to prioritise changing food systems to reduce their effect on the climate.has brought together researchers from around the world to find solutions on how to ensure healthy cities, and control shifting patterns of infectious diseases and deliver sustainable food systems.
Modern diets also affect health because they are the drivers of noncommunicable diseases such as obesity, undernutrition, heart disease, stroke and diabetes.
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