Assessment of diet-related GHG emissions using the environmental hourglass approach for the Mediterranean and new Nordic diets

Ulaszewska, Marynka; Luzzani, Gloria; Pignatelli, Sonia; Capri, E.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.09.039

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“…As a result, it will likely be necessary to tailor sustainable dietary recommendations to regional and cultural circumstances. This principle has been successfully applied in the new Nordic dietary recommendations and the Mediterranean diet ( 45 ). The work presented here will help policy makers quantify and optimize NRDs from an environmental perspective, building on the current knowledge of sustainable diets, which is important because consumers on their own are more likely to follow dietary guidelines developed with a health outcome in mind, rather than an environmental one ( 46 ).…”

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Evaluating the environmental impacts of dietary recommendations

Behrens

Jong

Bosker

et al. 2017

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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SignificanceNationally recommended diets are a prominent method for informing the public on dietary choices. Although dietary choices drive both health and environmental outcomes, these diets make almost no reference to environmental impacts. Our study provides a comparison between the environmental impacts of average dietary intakes and a nation-specific recommended diet across 37 middle- and high-income nations. We find that following a nationally recommended diet in high-income nations results in a reduction in greenhouse gases, eutrophication, and land use. In upper-middle–income nations, we find a smaller reduction in impacts, and in lower-middle–income nations we find a substantial increase. The net result from large-scale adoption of nationally recommended diets for countries studied here results in a reduction in environmental impacts.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating the environmental impacts of dietary recommendations

Behrens

Jong

Bosker

et al. 2017

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

228

171

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“…For example, linear programing can be used to identify a dietary pattern that is healthy and similar in its environmental impact to the vegan diet, but based on the current foods consumed by the population. This method could identify possible diets with the same impact on the environment as vegan diet but with lesser change from the original diet in other cultural contexts [25,37].…”

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Which Diet Has the Least Environmental Impact on Our Planet? A Systematic Review of Vegan, Vegetarian and Omnivorous Diets

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The food that we consume has a large impact on our environment. The impact varies significantly between different diets. The aim of this systematic review is to address the question: Which diet has the least environmental impact on our planet? A comparison of a vegan, vegetarian and omnivorous diets. This systematic review is based on 16 studies and 18 reviews. The included studies were selected by focusing directly on environmental impacts of human diets. Four electronic bibliographic databases, PubMed, Medline, Scopus and Web of Science were used to conduct a systematic literature search based on fixed inclusion and exclusion criteria. The durations of the studies ranged from 7 days to 27 years. Most were carried out in the US or Europe. Results from our review suggest that the vegan diet is the optimal diet for the environment because, out of all the compared diets, its production results in the lowest level of GHG emissions. Additionally, the reviewed studies indicate the possibility of achieving the same environmental impact as that of the vegan diet, without excluding the meat and dairy food groups, but rather, by reducing them substantially.

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“…In this case, by 2050, the greenhouse gases derived from food production would stay at the present values despite the calculated increase of the world population. This may also apply to the New Nordic Diet, which has been shown to be associated with emissions of greenhouse gases comparable to those of the Mediterranean diet [26]. The food pattern associated with an organic-type of diet has several characteristics of the Mediterranean, the pescetarian and vegetarian diet.…”

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To be or not to be for humankind - organic diets revisited for a sustainable development

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Dagnelie

2019

Sustain Earth

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Worldwide, traditional diets are being replaced by diets with high proportions of ultra-processed industrial foods, meat products and refined sugars, fats and oils. By contrast, the (slowly) growing consumption of unrefined organic food products and the more and more popular organic-type of diets are associated with lower consumption of these foods. In this comment, we argue that the growth of the organic food chain is already now contributing to the goal of improving public health in global terms as well as to the goal of reducing the environmental impact of agricultural production and food processing. Thus, consumption of organic food contributes to saving lives and enabling future human existence. As such, the organic food system deserves increased attention and stimulation by scientists and public agencies.

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Assessment of diet-related GHG emissions using the environmental hourglass approach for the Mediterranean and new Nordic diets

Cited by 48 publications

References 50 publications

Evaluating the environmental impacts of dietary recommendations

Evaluating the environmental impacts of dietary recommendations

Which Diet Has the Least Environmental Impact on Our Planet? A Systematic Review of Vegan, Vegetarian and Omnivorous Diets

To be or not to be for humankind - organic diets revisited for a sustainable development

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