ArticleFrontiers in nutrition2022
Sustainability of Diets in Mexico: Diet Quality, Environmental Footprint, Diet Cost, and Sociodemographic Factors.
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- Impact of healthy and sustainable diets on the mortality burden from cardiometabolic diseases and colorectal cancer in Mexican adults: a modeling study.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Associations of Sociodemographic Characteristics with Food Choice Motives' Importance Among Mexican Adults: A Cross-Sectional Analysis.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Sustainable diets: where from and where to?Journal of nutritional science · 2025Review
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- Mexican national dietary guidelines promote less costly and environmentally sustainable diets.Nature food · 2024Article
- More sustainable diets can be achieved by following the Mexican national dietary guidelines.Nature food · 2024Article
- The Impact of Sustainability Courses: Are They Effective in Improving Diet Quality and Anthropometric Indices?Nutrients · 2024Article
- Trends in the contribution of greenhouse gas emissions from food and beverage purchases in Mexico: 1989-2020.Nutrition journal · 2024Article
- [Sustainable diets: a scoping review and descriptive study of concept, measurement, and suggested methods for the development of Korean version].Korean journal of community nutrition · 2024Article
- Measurement of diets that are healthy, environmentally sustainable, affordable, and equitable: A scoping review of metrics, findings, and research gaps.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- Affordable Nutrient Density in Brazil: Nutrient Profiling in Relation to Food Cost and NOVA Category Assignments.Nutrients · 2022Article
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Abstract
Background: Little is known about the current intake of sustainable diets globally and specifically in middle-income countries, considering nutritional, environmental and economic factors. Objective: To assess and characterize the sustainability of Mexican diets and their association with sociodemographic factors. Design: Dietary data of 2,438 adults within the National Health and Nutrition Survey 2012 by integrating diet quality measured by the Healthy Eating Index (HEI-2015), diet cost, and four environmental indicators were analyzed: land use (LU), biodiversity loss (BDL), carbon footprint (CFP), and blue water footprint (BWFP). We defined healthier more sustainable diets (MSD) as those with HEI-2015 above the overall median, and diet cost and environmental indicators below the median. Logistic regression was used to evaluate the association of sociodemographic factors with MSD. Results: MSD were consumed by 10.2% of adults (4% of urban and 22% of rural), who had lower intake of animal-source foods, unhealthy foods (refined grains, added sugar and fats, mixed processed dishes and sweetened beverages), fruits, and vegetables, and higher intake of whole grains than non-MSD subjects. Characteristics of MSD vs. non-MSD (urban; rural) were: HEI-2015 (62.6 vs. 51.9; 66.8 vs. 57.6), diet-cost (1.9 vs. 2.8; 1.9 vs. 2.5 USD), LU (3.3 vs. 6.6; 3.2 vs. 5.9 m Conclusions: The MSD is a realistic diet pattern mainly found in disadvantaged populations, but diet quality is still sub-optimal. Increased consumption of legumes, fruits, and vegetables, and a reduction in unhealthy foods, is required to improve nutritional quality of diets while ensuring their environmental sustainability.
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