He wanted to give his family a lesson in consumption and was eating stale food for a year.

March 1, 2019

A man has experimented with the intention of demonstrating the amount of food wasted in the world.

A man from Maryland, United Stateshe wanted to teach a lesson of consumption to his own family and decided eat stale foods for a year show if it really affected your health.

Scott Nash, founder of an organic market called MOM, he explained The best news of Washintong (WTOP) too much food is wasted because of the expiry dates on product labels, which include phrases such as "Better to sell before" o "To consume before".

"Some things are damaged, and it's legitimate, and others are really not fake.Most of the food that is thrown away is due to those arbitrary and confusing dates … These are very vague terms What does it mean "expires" or "better if used before" – simply, I think there is no consistency and that creates confusion ", the man told the news portal.

To test his theory, he spent a whole year eating foods that, according to his label, had "Expired"and found that none of them had caused his death.

"I ate tortillas as had been done a year ago.Many of the meats I ate had expired a few weeks ago.I ate yogurt that had the last date in seven, eight or nine months ", he said.

Nash he discussed in a blog post Scott's compost pile He began his unusual experience when he found an old yogurt container on the back of the refrigerator and, although six months have pbaded since the expiry date, he was encouraged to to consume and nothing happened to him.

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Despite their unusual decision, many would consider "Put life in danger"some specialists agree with their argument. According to a recently published study, a near-universal misunderstanding of the dates on food labels is "Strongly badociated" with the amount of food we have all thrown away.

In this study, researchers from Johns Hopkins Center for Future Habitable (CLF) in the Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins they verified that 84% of respondents said that "At least from time to time" wasted food if it was around or after the expiration date and 37% said that "Always" o "In general" they threw it away.