November 7, 2022

Graph showing DALY count and age-standardized DALY rate from 1990 to 2019, reflecting the global burden of disease.

Report: Global Burden of Disease

All Media, Nutrition and Health / National Food Museum

The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) provides a systematic scientific assessment of published, publicly available, and contributed data on incidence, prevalence, and mortality for a mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive list of diseases and injuries.

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“Bread, Pastrami and Cocktails: Museum Shows Focus on Food” – New York Times article on recent museum food exhibits (Oct. 21, 2022)

The Alimentarium museum in Vevey, Switzerland, and its website may be the most impressive food museum in the world, with its wide-ranging and fun exhibits in the original 100-year-old headquarters of Nestlé & Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company.

Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History exhibit on Food: Transforming the American Table touches on food production, the beginnings of the “food movement” in the 1970s, and other topics, but its “star” is Julia Child’s actual kitchen.

The Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) in Brooklyn

Organizations Fighting World Hunger

Report: Global Burden of Disease

The World Health Organization (WHO) advocates for salt reduction because 2.5 million deaths could be prevented each year if earthlings consumed less salt.

WebMD calculator enables you to tally up the calorie content of foods you consume in a meal or a day (includes fresh, packaged, and chain-restaurant foods).

Ultra-processed foods—a quick primer (Washington Post).

SmartLabel: the American food industry website that lists nutrients, ingredients, presence or absence of GMOs, and other information for thousands of packaged foods.

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