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Global diets link environmental sustainability and human health

Tilman, David, Clark, Michael·2014·Nature
DOI 10.1038/nature13959
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Diets link environmental and human health. Rising incomes and urbanization are driving a global dietary transition in which traditional diets are replaced by diets higher in refined sugars, refined fats, oils and meats. By 2050 these dietary trends, if unchecked, would be a major contributor to an estimated 80 per cent increase in global agricultural greenhouse gas emissions from food production and to global land clearing. Moreover, these dietary shifts are greatly increasing the incidence of type II diabetes, coronary heart disease and other chronic non-communicable diseases that lower global life expectancies. Alternative diets that offer substantial health benefits could, if widely adopted, reduce global agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, reduce land clearing and resultant species extinctions, and help prevent such diet-related chronic non-communicable diseases. The implementation of dietary solutions to the tightly linked diet-environment-health trilemma is a global challenge, and opportunity, of great environmental and public health importance.

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  • Trade-offs for income regardless of the risk to human health or wellbeing seem to be accepted in other contexts like sex workers, income per capita with less preparation for natural disasters, and rising urbanisation escalating global risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes.

    “Trade-offs for income regardless of the risk to human health or wellbeing seems to be accepted in other contexts like, sex workers [99,100], income per capita, with less preparation for natural disasters [101] and rising urbanisation escalating global risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes [102].”

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Authors
Tilman, D., & Clark, M.
Venue
Nature
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2014-11
Volume
515
Issue
7528
Pages
518-522
ISSN
  • 0028-0836
  • 1476-4687
DOI
10.1038/nature13959
Cited by
3,026
References
11
Language
en
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