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Experts urge UN to safeguard poor communities’ right to milk, meat in new declaration

A draft UN declaration to eliminate trans-fatty acids from global diets risks inadvertently denying the world’s poorest the nutritional benefits of milk and meat, experts have said. The new declaration to reduce non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like heart disease and diabetes proposes to eliminate all trans-fatty acids from global diets. However, while research shows that industrially produced trans-fatty […]