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Extreme climate events such as droughts and floods are becoming more intense and frequent, reducing agricultural production, disrupting supply chains, limiting families’ access to fruits, vegetables and other fresh foods, and increasing the consumption of ultra-processed foods with low nutritional value. Foto: Envato

Climate crisis is affecting children’s nutrition

Droughts and floods reduce agricultural production, disrupt supply chains, and limit families’ access to fruits, vegetables, and other fresh foods.
The majority of the world is unable to process the lactose in milk without uncomfortable symptoms. Olga Miltsova/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Lactose intolerance is actually the human norm – but racism, the US government and business interests have made it into a condition

The vast majority of people around the world are lactose intolerant. But American propaganda and scientific biases have made milk and dairy products a staple in global diets.
Students who use cannabis may also experience irregular schedules, higher energy drink consumption or other behaviours that influence diet quality. (Unsplash+/Peter Muniz)

What cannabis use really tells us about university students’ eating habits

Researchers surveyed more than 1,500 students at a large Canadian university to better understand the relationship between cannabis use and diet quality.
Cereals use an array of techniques to capture kids’ (and parental) attention, for example, cartoon mascots, licensed media characters or fun shapes, colours and/or flavours. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Richard Buchan 

Children’s cereals promise breakfast fun and nutrition, but are still high in sugar

Using government developed criteria for marketing to kids, none of the child-targeted cereals examined would be permitted to be advertised to children, and 96 per cent surpassed sugar thresholds.
Pauses in data collection and staff cuts have affected many CDC databases. James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via Wikimedia Commons

From maternal health to influenza rates, gaps in CDC’s public health data are creating dangerous blind spots for disease tracking and prevention

By interfering with how communities collect data and how researchers access it, the CDC risks undermining the hard-won trust needed for effective public health.

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