Health impacts and environmental footprints of diets that meet the Eatwell Guide recommendations: analyses of multiple UK studies.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the health impacts and environmental consequences of adherence to national dietary recommendations (the Eatwell Guide (EWG)) in the UK.

Design and setting

A secondary analysis of multiple observational studies in the UK.

Participants

Adults from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer - Oxford(EPIC-Oxford), UK Biobank and Million Women Study, and adults and children aged 5 and over from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS).Primary and secondary outcome measures risk of total mortality from Cox proportional hazards regression models, total greenhouse gas emissions (GHGe) and blue water footprint (WF) associated with 'very low' (0-2 recommendations), 'low' (3-4 recommendations) or 'intermediate-to-high' (5-9 recommendations) adhe

SUBMITTER: Scheelbeek P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7451532 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature