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Healthy environments lead to healthy food
SPENCER — Healthier environments for food production produce healthier foods for consumers. This was the word from Nikki Putnam Badding, registered dietician and director of human nutrition initiatives at Alltech, an agri-food multinational. Putnam Badding is also the managing director of Acutia, a human health and wellness subsidiary of Alltech. Putnam Badding said the World Health Organization has pinpointed poor nutrition as the single greatest threat to world health, including in the U.S. She said the world population is projected to reach 10 billion by 2060, which she said ...