Diets are no healthier than they were 30 years ago.
Diets haven't improved in the past 30 years
A new study has seen researchers rank diets on a scale from 0 to 100, with 0 being junk food and 100 representing a healthy, balanced diet.
The average score in the latest study was 40.3, a paltry 1.5 gain compared to the data from 1990.
The experts concluded that people in the Americas and Caribbean had the worst diets while citizens in South Asia had the healthiest ones.
Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, of Tufts University in the US, said: "We found too few healthy foods and too many unhealthy foods were contributing to global challenges in achieving the recommended dietary quality."
Dr. Mozaffarian claims that the world's population needs a greater incentive to eat healthily.
He added: "This suggests that policies that incentivise and reward more healthy foods, such as in healthcare, employer wellness programmes and nutrition programmes may have a substantial impact on improving nutrition."