Food/Food and health

A shortage of food is not the only problem. Over a billion people are overweight, and 300,000,000 are obese ^[1]. A third of all children born in the USA in 2000 are expected to become diabetic ^[2]. Metabolic syndrome  is estimated to affect a quarter of the US population.

Unfortunately, changing human behaviour is not as straightforward as finding a solution to an engineering problem. But what the suggestions given here can achieve is a change in the food environment. Hopefully, by creating an environment where unprocessed fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts and seeds are readily available locally, we can mitigate obesity and diabetes as well as hunger.