The healthiness and sustainability of national and global food based dietary guidelines: modelling study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To analyse the health and environmental implications of adopting national food based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) at a national level and compared with global health and environmental targets.

Design

Modelling study.

Setting

85 countries.

Participants

Population of 85 countries.

Main outcome measures

A graded coding method was developed and used to extract quantitative recommendations from 85 FBDGs. The health and environmental impacts of these guidelines were assessed by using a comparative risk assessment of deaths from chronic diseases and a set of country specific environmental footprints for greenhouse gas emissions, freshwater use, cropland use, and fertiliser application. For comparison, the impacts of adopting the global dietary recommend

SUBMITTER: Springmann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7362232 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature