Animal foods can improve children’s lives

Willett and Rockstrom of the EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health claim that “flexibility to adapt to local diets is inherent in the reference dietary targets,” yet these allow scant use of starchy root vegetables.1 In many populations—including the famously long living Okinawans, but also across Africa and those parts of the South Pacific still minimally affected by dietary transitions to modern …