A new dietary guideline balancing sustainability and nutrition for China's rural and urban residents.

ABSTRACT: Diets have important but often complex implications for both environmental quality and nutrition. We establish a production-oriented life cycle model to quantify and compare the farm-to-gate environmental impacts and food nutritional qualities underlying rural and urban diets in China from 1980 to 2019, a period of rapid urbanization and socioeconomic changes. The environmental impacts of rural diets were generally higher than those of urban diets, but this gap reduced after 2000. Environmental and nutritional values varied considerably across the 31 Chinese provinces due to their different food intakes and dietary structures. Dietary changes coinciding with urbanization increased greenhouse gas emissions, eutrophication potential, and nutritional quality, but decreased energy consumption

SUBMITTER: Wu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9519510 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature