The inconvenient truths behind the 'Planetary Health' diet | GreenBiz
"Can we eat our way not only to better health, but also to a better planet?
That is the question addressed by the
EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems (PDF), which launched its global Planetary Health dietary recommendations at the United Nations.
...The importance, complexity and scale of this task cannot be overstated.
More than 800 million people on the planet do not have enough to eat.
Meanwhile, the diets of many of the other 7 billion citizens are driving a pandemic of "western" diseases.
Diet-driven chronic diseases have been rising at alarming rates for several decades.
Today,
60 percent of Americans have a chronic health condition; 40 percent have two or more.
More than half of Americans take a prescription drug; the average person takes four.
America is the sickest country in the developed world.
...So, has the EAT-Lancet Commission achieved its goal of devising a diet that can reduce chronic disease trends and environmental damage while allowing us to feed billions more people by 2050?
Sadly, the short answer is no..."
Read on.
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That is the question addressed by the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems (PDF), which launched its global Planetary Health dietary recommendations at the United Nations.
More than 800 million people on the planet do not have enough to eat.
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