Food System Crisis and Vegetarian Nutrition

Today we are faced with a panorama that offers us a whole range of foods that are as tasty as they are harmful, and we have succeeded in normalizing the trade in foods that are harmful to our health. We focus on protecting children from harmful substances such as tobacco, while ignoring the fact that they consume products that are the source of many of the diseases they will have to face in the future.

In countries like the United States, obesity is an extremely serious problem that causes the death of a large number of people every year. Worst of all, it is a problem that no one is interested in tackling. The companies behind the production of these foods, if we can even call them food, invest millions of dollars a year to make us forget how much sugar is in a soda or how much saturated fat is in so-called "fast food"

Problems of a poor diet: Poor diet, lacking the nutritional elements needed by the human organism, has become such a dangerous phenomenon that it has led dissimilar universities to become involved in its study. The scientific investigations carried out show highly worrying results: deficient nutrition causes more deaths per year than tobacco, hypertension or environmental pollution. This fact is enough for us to stop underestimating the importance of deeply considering what we eat and what our eating habits are.

The information age has provided us with a whole arsenal of articles and items related to healthy eating and lifestyle. However, the fight for information has very powerful adversaries, the companies that supply the junk and harmful food markets, earn millions at the expense of our health, it is such a lucrative business that although today we have thousands of scientific studies that endorse the reasons why we should not market certain foods, it seems impossible the mere idea of modifying a little the food formula of the same.

The panorama is highly complex. The foods we are referring to should not even be on the market, we are talking about nutritional labels that in terms of nutrition are absurd. The level of sugar in a soft drink is harmful to the human body. The sodium and saturated fat in certain fast food chain foods are the exact cause of many of the cardiovascular problems we have as adults, hypertension, high cholesterol, cerebrovascular problems, obesity, heart disease, diabetes and many others.

Fortunately, all is not lost, new trends in nutrition seem to shed some hope on this whole issue.

Healthy food trends: In recent years we have been able to observe certain trends towards healthy eating. Especially in more developed countries. The morality of some companies that sell harmful products is beginning to be questioned, even though there is scientific evidence on the matter. The fight against sugar has forced many new entrepreneurs to look for healthier alternatives to sweeten their products. The consumption of products low in sodium and saturated fats has gained greater acceptance, and people are beginning to appreciate the importance of being consistent with what we consume.

This leaves us in a bittersweet position. Harmful products exist because there are companies that produce them, while these companies produce them because there are people who buy them. We have managed to get a new product on the market with a promotional bonus if it manages to be tasty and healthy.

All this has forced new entrepreneurs to sharpen their wits and apply more revolutionary formulas. However, the companies that produce the harmful food continue to bill millions a year and show no sign that they are going to reformulate their food. So there is only one alternative left: to continue to inform and get more and more people to choose a healthy lifestyle.