{"id":17765,"date":"2021-09-22T02:06:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T02:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=17765"},"modified":"2021-09-22T02:06:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T02:06:19","slug":"food-production-methods-may-be-contributing-to-ecosystem-level-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2021\/09\/22\/food-production-methods-may-be-contributing-to-ecosystem-level-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Production Methods May Be Contributing to Ecosystem-Level Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UNITED STATES, July 11, 2019 (Worth, by Joon Yun): I started with a simple question: Does consuming food containing stress hormones affect our bodies? After all, we are what we eat, and I was curious if the stress imparted on our foods\u2014starting from when they are farm animals and plants all the way to when they end up on our fork\u2014might have implications on our health. The question hurtled me down a rabbit hole into the mysterious wonderland of food science, a field famous for nonsensical riddles that would have shorted even Lewis Carroll\u2019s fuse, riddles such as \u201cEat margarine instead of butter, but wait, don\u2019t eat trans fats!\u201d Decoding truths about how we should eat has profound implications for all stakeholders in the food system including consumers, policymakers and businesses.<br><br>Even as a growing cacophony of commercially motivated science contributes to this confusion, many fundamental questions about food and public health remain unanswered. To start building a stronger foundation of evidence-based nutrition science, former FDA commissioner David Kessler, former USDA secretary Dan Glickman and I wrote a New York Times opinion piece in February that made a case for establishing a new federal agency dedicated to funding nutrition research\u2014a National Institute of Nutrition. While the cost of using tax dollars to fund nutrition science may be high, the cost of not funding independent nutrition research may prove far higher, as the explosion of diet-related chronic diseases such as obesity and diabetes attests. The US Congress has taken notice.<br><br>More at \u201csource\u201d.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worth.com\/contributor\/is-stress-edible\/\n\">https:\/\/www.worth.com\/contributor\/is-stress-edible\/<br><\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED STATES, July 11, 2019 (Worth, by Joon Yun): I started with a simple question: Does consuming food containing stress,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17786,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17765\/revisions\/17786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}