Healthy diets can create environmental trade-offs, depending on how diet quality is measured.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is an urgent need to assess the linkages between diet patterns and environmental sustainability in order to meet global targets for reducing premature mortality and improving sustainable management of natural resources. This study fills an important research gap by evaluating the relationship between incremental differences in diet quality and multiple environmental burdens, while also accounting for the separate contributions of retail losses, inedible portions, and consumer waste.

Methods

Cross sectional, nationally-representative data on food intake in the United States were acquired from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2016), and were linked with nationally-representative data on food loss and waste from published literature. S

SUBMITTER: Conrad Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7592508 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature