Environmental impacts of dietary shifts in India: A modelling study using nationally-representative data.

ABSTRACT: Food production is a major driver of environmental change, and unhealthy diets are the leading cause of global disease burden. In high-income countries (HICs), modelling studies suggest that adoption of healthy diets could improve population health and reduce environmental footprints associated with food production. We assessed whether such benefits from dietary change could occur in India, where under-nutrition and overweight and obesity are simultaneously prevalent. We calculated the potential changes in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, blue and green water footprints (WFs), and land use (LU), that would result from shifting current national food consumption patterns in India to healthy diets (meeting dietary guidelines) and to "affluent diets" (those consumed by the wealthiest quartile o

SUBMITTER: Aleksandrowicz L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6437131 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature