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Danes are eating less fruit, vegetables, and potatoes and more meat, candy, and soda than ten years ago, according to the largest Danish dietary survey in a decade.

»Things are simply getting worse on almost all measurable parameters of our eating habits«

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Senior advisor Sisse Fagt from DTU Food Institute has spent over 30 years researching what Danes eat. She is one of the leading experts in the institute’s extensive dietary survey, which has examined what we consume every ten years since 1985.

Therefore, she highlights legumes as one of the first things when Politiken reaches out to her. That is, the lentils, beans, and chickpeas that health advocates have been preaching about for years.

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