One egg per day: “This is not a requirement that you have to eat exactly the same way,” says the President of the German Nutrition Society. Image: Stocksy
Hardly any meat, rarely fried eggs? The new recommendations from the German Nutrition Society are surprising to many: Is it no longer about health, but about the climate? President Bernhard Watzl explains: It’s (almost) the same thing.
Mr. Watzl, you have expanded the new nutritional recommendations of the German Nutrition Society (DGE) to include climate and environmental aspects. How does this fit with the DGE statutes? Not once do the words “environment” or “climate” appear.
Katrin Hummel
Editor in the “Life” department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
Our statutes state that we want to advance the topic of sustainable nutrition. That’s why we proceed by asking: What is scientific development? And accordingly, we have now taken the aspects of climate and environment into account for the first time.
And scientific developments clearly say that you should only eat one egg a week? This is what the new DGE recommendations say. So from a culinary point of view, will Easter be a failure for us this year?