SynthesisAdvances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.)2020
Systematic Review of Dietary Patterns and Sustainability in the United States.
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57 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Aligning Environmental Sustainability, Health Outcomes, and Affordability in Diet Quality: A Systematic Review.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2023Pooled it
- Associations of daily diet-related greenhouse gas emissions with the incidence and mortality of chronic diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological studies.Epidemiology and health · 2023Pooled it
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- Nudging Toward Sustainable and Healthy Diets: A Randomized Trial of Young Adults.Current developments in nutrition · 2026Article
- Current Evidence on Dietary Patterns and Consumer Food Choices in the Context of Climate and Environmental Change: A Global Perspective-A Report from the Agriculture and Diet: Value Added for Nutrition, Translation, and Adaptation in a Global Ecology (ADVANTAGE) Project Working Group 2.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Review
- An analysis of diet sustainability among different dietary patterns in the Portuguese adult and elderly population.European journal of nutrition · 2026Article
- Multi-objective optimization of national dietary guidelines: balancing nutrition, environment, and economy.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Translating nutrition science into national policy: comparative assessment of the 2025-2030 U. S. Dietary Guidelines and the Italian Mediterranean-based guidelines.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Exploring eight-year trajectories of diet-related environmental pressures in the NutriNet-Santé cohort.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Role of Beef for the Lowest Cost and Adequate Provision of Bioavailable Nutrients in Modeled Diets at a Population Level in the United States.Current developments in nutrition · 2025Article
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- Perspectives in the Scientific Literature on the Barriers and Benefits of the Transition to a Plant-Based Diet: A Bibliometric Analysis.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Ultraprocessed Food Consumption and Pre-Farmgate Greenhouse Gas Emissions Among United States Adults from 2007-2010.Current developments in nutrition · 2025Article
- Association between composite dietary antioxidant index and cognitive function impairment in the elderly: evidence from NHANES 2011-2014.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Greater adherence to the Mediterranean diet pattern in the United States is associated with sustainability trade-offs.Nutrition journal · 2024Article
- Evaluating Food Procurement against the EAT-International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Opportunities for Consistent and Holistic Metrics to Support Food Systems Transformation: A Summary of a Symposium Presented at Nutrition 2023.Current developments in nutrition · 2024Article
- Adherence to the Planetary Health Diet Index and correlation with nutrients of public health concern: an analysis of NHANES 2003-2018.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2024Article
- Foodprint 2.0: A computational simulation model that estimates the agricultural resource requirements of diet patterns.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
Improving awareness and accessibility of healthy diets are key challenges for health professionals and policymakers alike. While the US government has been assessing and encouraging nutritious diets via the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) since 1980, the long-term sustainability, and thus availability, of those diets has received less attention. The 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) examined the evidence on sustainable diets for the first time, but this topic was not included within the scope of work for the 2020 DGAC. The objective of this study was to systematically review the evidence on US dietary patterns and sustainability outcomes published from 2015 to 2019 replicating the 2015 DGAC methodology. The 22 studies meeting inclusion criteria reveal a rapid expansion of research on US dietary patterns and sustainability, including 8 studies comparing the sustainability of DGA-compliant dietary patterns with current US diets. Our results challenge prior findings that diets adhering to national dietary guidelines are more sustainable than current average diets and indicate that the Healthy US-style dietary pattern recommended by the DGA may lead to similar or increased greenhouse gas emissions, energy use, and water use compared with the current US diet. However, consistent with previous research, studies meeting inclusion criteria generally support the conclusion that, among healthy dietary patterns, those higher in plant-based foods and lower in animal-based foods would be beneficial for environmental sustainability. Additional research is needed to further evaluate ways to improve food system sustainability through both dietary shifts and agricultural practices in the United States.
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