Archived Daytime Events (Global Eyes)

These guidelines address the key elements of healthy eating patterns, the social and cultural values of eating, and more.

The USDA shares dietary guidelines from Greece to Singapore.

The UN's Food and Agricultural Organization touches upon dietary guidelines by country.

A look at healthy eating from the American Heart Association

This New York Times article investigates food habits across the world.

Japan Times gives a historical explanation behind Okinawan diet and how it affects human longevity.

This article shares information on the benefits of an Okinawan diet and the top Okinawan foods for longevity.

The Nordic diet features foods that are locally sourced or traditionally eaten in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Developed in collaboration with the acclaimed Copenhagen gourmet restaurant NOMA, the diet emphasizes the use of seasonal, healthy, regional foods.

NPR looks into the effectiveness of a having a Nordic Diet.

The heart-healthy Mediterranean is a healthy eating plan based on typical foods and recipes of Mediterranean-style cooking.

U.S. News describes the Mediterranean diet and how it can work for you.

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." With that seven-word maxim, US-based journalist Michael Pollan distills a career’s worth of reporting into a prescription for reversing the damage being done to people’s health by today’s industrially driven Western diet. In Defense of Food debunks the daily media barrage of conflicting claims about nutrition. Traveling the globe and the supermarket aisles to illustrate the principles of his bestselling “eater’s manifesto,” Pollan offers a clear answer to one of the most confounding and urgent questions of our time: What should I eat to be healthy?

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Elena Paravantes explains the history of portrayal of the Mediterranean diet outside of Greece leading up to today and why it is necessary to promote it. By describing the role of Crete in the Mediterranean Diet Eating Model, she discuss the significance and implications (economic & health) of an organized promotion leading to an establishment of a Mediterranean Diet Resource Center.

Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, West Virginia — and a shocking image of the sugar we eat — TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.

In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what's wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it's putting the entire planet at risk.