The health, environmental, and economic dimensions of future dietary transitions in Argentina.

ABSTRACT: Diets link human health with environmental sustainability, offering promising pressure points to enhance the sustainability of food systems. We investigated the health, environmental, and economic dimensions of the current diet in Argentina and the possible effects of six dietary change scenarios on nutrient adequacy, dietary quality, food expenditure, and six environmental impact categories (i.e., GHG emissions, total land occupation, cropland use, fossil energy use, freshwater consumption, and the emission of eutrophying pollutants). Current dietary patterns are unhealthy, unsustainable, and relatively expensive, and all things being equal, an increase in income levels would not alter the health dimension, but increase environmental impacts by 33-38%, and costs by 38%. Compared to the pr

SUBMITTER: Arrieta EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8760564 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature