ArticleEuropean journal of nutrition2022
Sustainability analysis of Finnish pre-schoolers' diet based on targets of the EAT-Lancet reference diet.
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- The Health and Environmental Impacts, Safety, and Affordability of the EAT-Lancet Planetary Health Diet: A Multidisciplinary Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Pooled it
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- Implementation and effectiveness of a food education intervention to promote plant-based foods: a partially cluster-randomized controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2026Trial
- Higher Adherence to the EAT-Lancet Diets After a Lifestyle Intervention in a Pediatric Population with Abdominal Obesity.Nutrients · 2024Trial
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- Planetary Health Diet for Childhood Obesity Prevention: Integrating Nutritional Health with Environmental Stewardship.Nutrients · 2024Review
- Chilean children's adherence to sustainable healthy diets and its associations with sociodemographic and anthropometric factors: a cross-sectional study.European journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- Association between adherence to the EAT-Lancet sustainable reference diet and cardiovascular health among European adolescents: the HELENA study.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2024Article
- Tracking progress toward a climate-friendly public food service strategy: assessing nutritional quality and carbon footprint changes in childcare centers.Nutrition journal · 2024Article
- Challenges and opportunities when moving food production and consumption toward sustainable diets in the Nordics: a scoping review for Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023.Food & nutrition research · 2024Article
- Adapting the Planetary Health Diet Index for children and adolescents.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Article
- Environmental and nutritional assessment of young children's diets in Norway: comparing the current diet with national dietary guidelines and the EAT-Lancet reference diet.European journal of nutrition · 2023Article
- 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 · 2023Article
- The Association of Planetary Health Diet with the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes and Related Complications: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Associations of dietary patterns with common infections and antibiotic use among Finnish preschoolers.Food & nutrition research · 2023Article
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Abstract
purposeThe EAT-Lancet reference diet is a healthy plant-based diet produced within planetary boundaries. To inform the food system transformation, we compared Finnish pre-schoolers' food consumption with the reference diet's food group targets.
methodsFood record data for 3- to 6-year-old pre-schoolers were collected in the cross-sectional DAGIS survey. Ingredients of composite dishes were available in the data. In addition, we manually decomposed industrial products such as sausages and biscuits by estimating the shares of ingredients. We also estimated the consumption of added sugars and converted the consumption of dairy products into milk equivalents. We used usual intake modelling to estimate the mean consumption and the proportion of children who met the reference diet's targets. We set the target amounts separately for 3- to 4-year-olds and 5- to 6-year-olds in grams by proportioning the published target amounts (assuming a 2500 kcal diet) to the children's mean reported energy intake.
resultsFor both age groups (3- to 4-year-olds, n = 460; 5- to 6-year-olds, n = 402), the daily mean consumption of whole grains, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and unsaturated oils was below targets, whereas the consumption of red meat, dairy foods, tubers, and added sugars was above targets. The consumption of fruit and fish was in line with targets.
conclusionTo comply with the reference diet's targets, major changes in the diets of Finnish children are needed. The key food groups targeted for higher consumption are whole grains and legumes and targeted for lower consumption red meat and dairy products.
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