ArticleNutrients2019
Diet Quality and Water Scarcity: Evidence from a Large Australian Population Health Survey.
Article in Nutrients, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Estimating carbon and water footprints associated with commercial milk formula production and use: development and implications of the Green Feeding Climate Action Tool.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Review
- Nutritional, environmental and economic impacts of ultra-processed food consumption in Australia.Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- Toward healthy and sustainable diets for the 21st century: Importance of sociocultural and economic considerations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Towards healthier and more sustainable diets in the Australian context: comparison of current diets with the Australian Dietary Guidelines and the EAT-Lancet Planetary Health Diet.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Diets with Higher Vegetable Intake and Lower Environmental Impact: Evidence from a Large Australian Population Health Survey.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Single-item substitutions can substantially reduce the carbon and water scarcity footprints of US diets.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2022Article
- An Alternative Nutrient Rich Food Index (NRF-ai) Incorporating Prevalence of Inadequate and Excessive Nutrient Intake.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Pesticide Toxicity Footprints of Australian Dietary Choices.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Use of the DELTA Model to Understand the Food System and Global Nutrition.The Journal of nutrition · 2021Article
- An assessment of the water use associated with Australian diets using a planetary boundary framework.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Diets within Environmental Limits: The Climate Impact of Current and Recommended Australian Diets.Nutrients · 2021Article
- The role of dairy foods in lower greenhouse gas emission and higher diet quality dietary patterns.European journal of nutrition · 2021Article
- Cropland Footprints of Australian Dietary Choices.Nutrients · 2020Article
- Within-Day Variability in Negative Affect Moderates Cue Responsiveness in High-Calorie Snacking.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
There is widespread interest in dietary strategies that lower environmental impacts. However, various forms of malnutrition are also widely prevalent. In a first study of its kind, we quantify the water-scarcity footprint and diet quality score of a large (>9000) population of self-selected adult daily diets. Here, we show that excessive consumption of discretionary foods-i.e., energy-dense and nutrient-poor foods high in saturated fat, added sugars and salt, and alcohol-contributes up to 36% of the water-scarcity impacts and is the primary factor differentiating healthier diets with lower water-scarcity footprint from poorer quality diets with higher water-scarcity footprint. For core food groups (fruits, vegetables, etc.), large differences in water-scarcity footprint existed between individual foods, making difficult the amendment of dietary guidelines for water-scarcity impact reduction. Very large reductions in dietary water-scarcity footprint are possible, but likely best achieved though technological change, product reformulation and procurement strategies in the agricultural and food industries.
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