ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017
Evaluating the environmental impacts of dietary recommendations.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05832203 (Validation and Effect of the Eats-Up 3.0 Mobile Application With Features of a Balanced and Sustainable Nutrition Diet Recommendation, Healthy Lifestyle, Assessment of Diet Quality and Greenhouse Gas Emission in Adults), which is not on this map. Cited by 74 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Validation and Effect of the Eats-Up 3.0 Mobile Application With Features of a Balanced and Sustainable Nutrition Diet Recommendation, Healthy Lifestyle, Assessment of Diet Quality and Greenhouse Gas Emission in Adults
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74 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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Abstract
Dietary choices drive both health and environmental outcomes. Information on diets come from many sources, with nationally recommended diets (NRDs) by governmental or similar advisory bodies the most authoritative. Little or no attention is placed on the environmental impacts within NRDs. Here we quantify the impact of nation-specific NRDs, compared with an average diet in 37 nations, representing 64% of global population. We focus on greenhouse gases (GHGs), eutrophication, and land use because these have impacts reaching or exceeding planetary boundaries. We show that compared with average diets, NRDs in high-income nations are associated with reductions in GHG, eutrophication, and land use from 13.0 to 24.8%, 9.8 to 21.3%, and 5.7 to 17.6%, respectively. In upper-middle-income nations, NRDs are associated with slight decrease in impacts of 0.8-12.2%, 7.7-19.4%, and 7.2-18.6%. In poorer middle-income nations, impacts increase by 12.4-17.0%, 24.5-31.9%, and 8.8-14.8%. The reduced environmental impact in high-income countries is driven by reductions in calories (∼54% of effect) and a change in composition (∼46%). The increased environmental impacts of NRDs in low- and middle-income nations are associated with increased intake in animal products. Uniform adoption of NRDs across these nations would result in reductions of 0.19-0.53 Gt CO
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