Dietary changes needed to improve diet sustainability: are they similar across Europe?

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES:It is not known whether dietary changes able to simultaneously achieve nutritional adequacy and reduce diet-related greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) are similar across Europe when cultural and gender specificities are taken into account. SUBJECTS/METHODS:Starting from each mean observed diet in five European countries (France, UK, Italy, Finland, and Sweden) and for each gender, nutritionally adequate diets departing the least from observed diet were designed with linear programming by applying stepwise 10% GHGE reductions. Other models directly minimized GHGE. RESULTS:For most countries and whatever the gender, achieving nutritional adequacy implied between-food-group subtitutions (i.e., replacing items from the sugar/fat/alcohol food-group with items from the fruit a

SUBMITTER: Vieux F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6035144 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature