Affordability of the EAT-Lancet reference diet: a global analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The EAT-Lancet Commission drew on all available nutritional and environmental evidence to construct the first global benchmark diet capable of sustaining health and protecting the planet, but it did not assess dietary affordability. We used food price and household income data to estimate affordability of EAT-Lancet benchmark diets, as a first step to guiding interventions to improve diets around the world.

Methods

We obtained retail prices from 2011 for 744 foods in 159 countries, collected under the International Comparison Program. We used these data to identify the most affordable foods to meet EAT-Lancet targets. We compared total diet cost per day to each country's mean per capita household income, calculated the proportion of people for whom the most afford

SUBMITTER: Hirvonen K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7024996 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature