Is the Sustainable Choice a Healthy Choice?-Water Footprint Consequence of Changing Dietary Patterns.

ABSTRACT: It is evident that the modification of dietary patterns is a necessary precondition of disease prevention and health improvement. Changing nutritional habits also has deep-rooted consequences on the environmental burden. The majority of similar previous studies have analyzed the change in greenhouse gas emissions against theoretical modifications in current food consumption. The analysis on the effect of diet on the water footprint is also gaining in importance, since water supply is a critical global issue. Based on current nutritional patterns of a Central European country-Hungary-as well as dietary recommendations and scientific literature, we generated six dietary scenarios and determined the consequences of these on green (originally from precipitation) and blue (sourced from surface

SUBMITTER: Tompa O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7551173 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature