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The World’s Vegetables Are Vanishing, And It’s Quietly Wrecking Our Diets

By JESS COCKERILL

Most of us aren’t eating anywhere near enough vegetables, and we’re suffering the health consequences.

Meanwhile, we’re also growing fewer and fewer varieties of vegetables, adding to the declining diversity in our diets.

A new report published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by an international team of nutrition, agriculture, and botany experts suggests embracing vegetable biodiversity could be key to improving our own health, and that of our planet.

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