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Promoting healthy eating without plastics: An ethical practice in primary care
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Researchers proposed integrating plastic packaging concerns into primary care nutrition counseling, arguing that framing ultra-processed food avoidance around both health and plastic exposure creates a more compelling behavior-change narrative and broadens clinicians' toolkit for promoting healthy eating habits.
Effective clinical interventions to engage in new habits remain a challenge despite intense research. One such strategy is to include the environmental issue of plastic packaging from ultra-processed food in nutrition recommendations. It expands the notion of health, contributing to engaging in healthy eating behaviors, in addition to being an ethical practice for health professionals. It brings co-benefits for both the environment and individual health through motivational incentives of less individual pollution, contributing to healthier food systems. Primary health professionals should be prepared to deal with risks of plastics and waste reduction strategies in their practice.
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