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Meat in healthy dietary patterns
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- The Food and Agriculture Organization recently released a report titled “Contribution of terrestrial animal source food to healthy diets for improved nutrition and health outcomes.”
- Trends in nutrition indicators show that the world is currently not on track to attain several of the 2025 World Health Assembly.
- Terrestrial animal source food (TASF), within healthy dietary patterns, can make vital contributions to efforts to meet the global nutrition targets for 2025.
- TASF is a rich source of macro-nutrients like protein, fats, carbohydrates and Micro-nutrients.
- Consumption of TASF can address deficiencies in iron and vitamin A.
- Globally, 21 percent of total caloric supply is comprised of TASF.
- The figure is higher in Europe (37 percent) and the Americas (30 percent), but in Africa it is only 11 percent.
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