Topic
Food Systems
Food Systems is a recurring research topic on Health Canon. This hub collects related explainers and protocols, newest first, each with evidence grades and practical decision frameworks.
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Nutrition
Transport Mode, Season, and Greenhouses: When Food Miles Actually Matter
Truck, ship, and air freight differ by orders of magnitude. Heated winter greenhouses can exceed field imports. Average food-mile guilt is still the wrong default algorithm.
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Nutrition
Local vs Global Food Systems: Efficiency, Resilience, and Health Claims
Neither pure global nor pure local maximizes health, climate, and resilience. Production method and diet composition dominate; trade and regional capacity both have jobs.
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Nutrition
Cold Chain, Packaging, and Food Waste: Where Nutrients and Emissions Leak
Broken cold chains waste food and nutrients; packaging trades material impacts for spoilage reduction. Waste often dominates climate math more than last-mile miles.
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Nutrition
Seasonal Eating Romanticism vs Evidence: Critiques That Keep the Good Parts
Keep produce variety, cooking, and low UPF. Drop ancestral purity, anti-global efficiency myths, and health claims that outrun data.
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Nutrition
Seasonal & Regional Eating: Nutrients, Food Miles & Pattern Evidence
Seasonal and regional eating without romanticism — nutrient seasonality, frozen-at-peak value, production GHG over food-miles, Mediterranean/Nordic pattern evidence, and life-stage food security priorities.
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