The Benefits of the EAT-Lancet Commission's Dietary Recommendations Are Significant and Robust.

Marco Springmann, Ashkan Afshin, Juan A Rivera, Daniel D Wang, Walter Willett

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Article in The Journal of nutrition, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

A Multicomponent Family Treatment of Childhood Obesity Based on the Planetary Healthy Diet: A Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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Relative validity of the Planetary Health Diet Index by comparison with usual nutrient intakes, plasma food consumption biomarkers, and adherence to the Mediterranean diet among European adolescents: the HELENA study.European journal of nutrition · 2023
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Adherence to the Planetary Health Diet Index and Obesity Indicators in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil).Nutrients · 2021
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4 · The record

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The EAT-Lancet Commission's Dietary Composition May Not Prevent Noncommunicable Disease Mortality.2020

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Marco SpringmannFrom the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food and Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Ashkan AfshinInstitute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

Juan A RiveraInstituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Daniel D WangDepartment of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

Walter WillettDepartment of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

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PMID33044522

DOI10.1093/jn/nxaa257

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