Exploring healthy and climate-friendly diets for Danish adults: an optimization study using quadratic programming.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A transition to healthy and sustainable diets has the potential to improve human and planetary health but diets need to meet requirements for nutritional adequacy, health, environmental targets, and be acceptable to consumers.

Objective

The objective of this study was to derive a nutritionally adequate and healthy diet that has the least deviation possible from the average observed diet of Danish adults while aiming for a greenhouse gas emission (GHGE) reduction of 31%, corresponding to the GHGE level of the Danish plant-rich diet, which lays the foundation for the current healthy and sustainable food-based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) in Denmark.

Methods

With an objective function minimizing the departure from the average observed diet of Danish adults, four

SUBMITTER: Nordman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10307962 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature