The global and regional costs of healthy and sustainable dietary patterns: a modelling study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adoption of healthy and sustainable diets could be essential for safe-guarding the Earth's natural resources and reducing diet-related mortality, but their adoption could be hampered if such diets proved to be more expensive and unaffordable for some populations. Therefore, we aimed to estimate the costs of healthy and sustainable diets around the world.

Methods

In this modelling study, we used regionally comparable food prices from the International Comparison Program for 150 countries. We paired those prices with estimates of food demand for different dietary patterns that, in modelling studies, have been associated with reductions in premature mortality and environmental resource demand, including nutritionally balanced flexitarian, pescatarian, vegetarian, and

SUBMITTER: Springmann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8581186 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature