Nutritional Quality and Health Effects of Low Environmental Impact Diets: The "Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra" (SUN) Cohort.

ABSTRACT: Current dietary patterns are negatively affecting both the environment and people's health. Healthy diets are generally more environmentally friendly. However, few studies have focused on the health consequences of diets with low environmental impact. We analyzed differences in the dietary composition (types of food, macro- and micro-nutrients) of those diets with high and low environmental impact, according to greenhouse gas emission and resources use (water, land and energy) using data from a Spanish cohort (17,387 participants), collected by means of a validated food frequency questionnaire. Cox analyses were used to assess the association of dietary environmental impact with total mortality risk. At a given level of energy intake, diets with lower environmental impact contained higher

SUBMITTER: Fresan U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7468973 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature