Interplay between Diets, Health, and Climate Change

dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage3878
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue9
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume12
dc.contributor.authorPradhan, Prajal
dc.contributor.authorKropp, Jürgen P.
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-22T06:03:06Z
dc.date.available2022-08-22T06:03:06Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThe world is facing a triple burden of undernourishment, obesity, and environmental impacts from agriculture while nourishing its population. This burden makes sustainable nourishment of the growing population a global challenge. Addressing this challenge requires an understanding of the interplay between diets, health, and associated environmental impacts (e.g., climate change). For this, we identify 11 typical diets that represent dietary habits worldwide for the last five decades. Plant-source foods provide most of all three macronutrients (carbohydrates, protein, and fat) in developing countries. In contrast, animal-source foods provide a majority of protein and fat in developed ones. The identified diets deviate from the recommended healthy diet with either too much (e.g., red meat) or too little (e.g., fruits and vegetables) food and nutrition supply. The total calorie supplies are lower than required for two diets. Sugar consumption is higher than recommended for five diets. Three and five diets consist of larger-than-recommended carbohydrate and fat shares, respectively. Four diets with a large share of animal-source foods exceed the recommended value of red meat. Only two diets consist of at least 400 gm/cap/day of fruits and vegetables while accounting for food waste. Prevalence of undernourishment and underweight dominates in the diets with lower calories. In comparison, a higher prevalence of obesity is observed for diets with higher calories with high shares of sugar, fat, and animal-source foods. However, embodied emissions in the diets do not show a clear relation with calorie supplies and compositions. Two high-calorie diets embody more than 1.5 t CO 2 eq/cap/yr, and two low-calorie diets embody around 1 t CO 2 eq/cap/yr. Our analysis highlights that sustainable and healthy diets can serve the purposes of both nourishing the population and, at the same time, reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture.eng
dc.description.versionpublishedVersioneng
dc.identifier.urihttps://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/10104
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.34657/9142
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherBasel : MDPI
dc.relation.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/su12093878
dc.relation.essn2071-1050
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSustainability 12 (2020), Nr. 9
dc.rights.licenseCC BY 4.0 Unported
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectDiet shiftseng
dc.subjectDietary patternseng
dc.subjectEmbodied emissionseng
dc.subjectEmission intensityeng
dc.subjectHealthy dietseng
dc.subjectSustainable dietseng
dc.subject.ddc333.7
dc.subject.ddc690
dc.titleInterplay between Diets, Health, and Climate Changeeng
dc.typearticleeng
dc.typeTexteng
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journalTitleSustainability
tib.accessRightsopenAccesseng
wgl.contributorPIK
wgl.subjectUmweltwissenschaftenger
wgl.subjectMedizin, Gesundheitger
wgl.typeZeitschriftenartikelger
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