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ASU researchers contribute to comprehensive review outlining key strategies to transform worldwide food systems to better align health, sustainability and equity

March 18, 2026 ByJoyce Hendley, Staff Writer

Urban populations in early modern to modern Japan depended strongly on rice and marine fish, raising the question of whether such apparently simple diets provided sufficient mineral availability in everyday life. Here, we analyze human hair preserved in historical book covers to reconstruct elemental exposure among urban commoners from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Screening…