Food Then and Now: How Nutrition Has Changed

A loss of nutrients and processed food has transformed our diets

A dinner out will often be the kind of processed industrial food most of us would be better off avoiding. Pablo Merchán Montes/Unsplash

Within the last half century, our food has drastically changed. Things we eat now are not the same as they once were. What happened? How has our nutrition changed?

Meat, Eggs, and Dairy

Factory farmed animal products, a huge industry today, were essentially inconceivable fewer than 100 years ago.

If you didn’t live in a rural setting where you likely raised your own animals, the milkman delivered dairy products from a not so far away dairy.