President Major General Retired Jioji Konusi Konrote has joined the Food and Agriculture Organisation in putting the focus on having a healthy diet with World Food Day being celebrated today.

Speaking at the celebrations held at Ratu Ganilau Park in Savusavu this morning, the President says in recent decades, we have dramatically changed our lives and eating habits as a result of globalisation, urbanisation, income growth and lifestyle.

Konrote says we have moved away from our seasonal plant-based fiber-rich diets and moved to diets that are high in refined starch, sugar, salt, and processed foods.

He adds that there is now a heavy reliance on supermarket foods, fast food outlets, street food vendors, takeaway restaurants when we have fresh local vegetables and crops available for consumption all year round.

Konrote says our population ought to be eating the right foods with the right proportions as acquiring a healthy life is better.

This year, World Food Day calls for action across sectors to make healthy and sustainable diets affordable and accessible to everyone.

At the same time, it calls on everyone to start thinking about what we eat.

The theme for World Food Day this year is Our Health Our Future, Healthy Diets for a Zero Hunger World.