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Is a Cardio-Protective Diet Sustainable? A Review of the Synergies and Tensions Between Foods That Promote the Health of the Heart and the Planet.

Shauna M Downs, Jessica Fanzo

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Review in Current nutrition reports. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. A Systematic Review of the Measurement of Sustainable Diets.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2016
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Shauna M DownsEarth Institute and Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University, Interchurch Center, Suite 1040, 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10115 USA.
Jessica FanzoThe Berman Institute of Bioethics and The School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are many synergies between a diet that is healthy for the heart and one that is healthy for the planet, but there may also be tensions. We examined the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition's double pyramid to describe the carbon, water, and ecological footprints of the components of a cardio-protective diet. Overall, fruits, vegetables, and whole grains all tend to have low carbon and water footprints, while nuts and olive oil have relatively higher water footprints and fish have a high ecological footprint. In order to increase the sustainability of a cardio-protective diet, consumers can choose nuts (e.g., walnuts) and oils (e.g., sunflower) with lower water footprints and sustainably produced fish. However, in order to increase consumption of these foods, parallel efforts should be implemented targeting consumer knowledge and incentives to make these foods more affordable.

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Cardiovascular diseasePlanetary healthSustainabilitySustainable diets

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PMID26568897
PMCPMC4639573

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