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Examining Nutrition and Food Waste Trade-offs Using an Obesity Prevention Context

Published:January 29, 2021DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2020.11.005

      Abstract

      Obesity and food waste are related issues, both exacerbated by an overabundance of food. Efforts to reduce food waste can have varying unintended, obesity-related consequences, which further underscores the need for a systems approach to food waste reduction. Yet, these 2 issues are rarely examined together. It is the authors’ point of view that for nutrition educators and other public health practitioners to develop interventions that simultaneously address food waste and obesity, they need to understand how actions at the consumer-level may impact waste and its related food system consequences earlier in the supply chain.

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