Exploring healthy diets around the world
What does a healthy diet look like? The answer varies across cultures and countries.
As part of FAO’s first global exhibition, From Seeds to Food, the photo exhibition A Taste of Healthy Diets Worldwide showcases the rich diversity of healthy eating through the daily lives of families from various regions around the world.
While the principles of a healthy diet are universal – providing essential nutrients, ensuring diversity, balancing energy sources and limiting foods that can harm health – they are practised differently depending on culture, preferences, food cost and availability.
Through striking images and personal stories, the exhibition shows how healthy diets around the world nurture well-being, preserve culture, connect people to their environment, and can foster sustainability.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) works to make healthy diets from sustainable food systems accessible and affordable for all. FAO works with governments and partners to improve farming, trade and other policies so that more people can access a variety of healthy, nutritious foods. It also supports changes in markets, communities, schools and other settings to help people make healthier food choices.
Let these images inspire you to discover what it means to eat well, and why it matters
This exhibition features photos illustrating healthy diets around the world, selected from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. The project, by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio, explores the lives and diets of 40 families around the world, showing what they eat in one week, and how it varies. The authors document the growing impact of food globalization, highlighting examples of both healthy and less healthy eating habits. These stories, taken together, deepen our understanding of diet and cultural diversity.
About the exhibition
Drawn from “Hungry Planet: What the World Eats”, the exhibition highlights how families across the globe plan and enjoy their weekly meals.
