Plant-based diet. Does that mean we all have to be vegetarian or vegan now? A clear no. If you like to eat meat and at the same time protect your health and the environment, you can limit your consumption to a maximum of 300 grams per week. This is what the German Society for Nutrition recommends based on scientific models...
More and more people are suffering from severe obesity. In 2022, more than a billion people around the world were obese. Since 1990, the number of people affected has more than doubled among adults and even quadrupled among children and young people. This was shown by a study that was recently published in the journal “The Lancet”. The World Health Organization (WHO) was involved in data collection and analysis in 197 countries...
It was to be expected that the German Nutrition Society (DGE) would recommend reducing the consumption of animal products, but it does not change the scientific basis. “A healthy, balanced diet includes regular consumption of meat,” says Steffen Reiter, Managing Director of the Meat Industry Association (VDF)...
The federal cabinet approved the federal government's nutrition strategy last week. The strategy entitled “Good Food for Germany” was developed by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL). It brings together around 90 planned and existing nutritional policy measures with the aim of making good food easier for everyone in Germany. With this strategy, the BMEL is fulfilling a mandate from the coalition agreement and society...
In purely mathematical terms, we produce enough food for everyone worldwide. However, this happens by massively exceeding the planetary load limits and that has consequences. In principle, we could supply the estimated ten billion people on earth in the future with healthy food and at the same time preserve our livelihoods. To achieve this, the agricultural and food system must change massively...
A good fifth of Germans would buy food that was produced without chemical pesticides but with the targeted use of mineral fertilizers. And: You would be prepared to dig deeper into your pockets for this. Scientists at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart investigated this using milk and dairy products as an example...
Many people pay attention to the impact on the environment and climate when it comes to their diet. This is one of the results of this year's nutrition report from the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), which Federal Minister Cem Özdemir presented today. The daily consumption of plant-based alternatives to meat products has increased significantly...
Eating habits are changing. Three meals a day? That was once. Now we snack happily in between. At the same time, meat consumption is declining and vegetarian and vegan alternatives are in demand. Butchers and bakers are faced with the challenge of adapting their offerings to social trends...
Food poverty in Germany is a growing problem and the current state financial aid is not sufficient. The speakers at the 7th BZfE forum “Food poverty in Germany – see, understand, encounter” agreed on this. Eva Bell, head of the department "Healthy Consumer Protection, Nutrition" in the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture...
Do we need animal products? Do foods of animal origin contribute to a healthy diet? How bad for the environment are foods of animal origin? Questions that polarize and are controversially discussed in politics, research and society. An international team of scientists has compiled data and facts about food of animal origin...
The advertising barriers for unhealthy foods that were launched yesterday are a milestone in the fight against malnutrition and obesity. Food Minister Cem Özdemir is finally putting an end to the unsuccessful principle of voluntariness, which the federal government has been practicing for years...