Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems
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Commission report demonstrates targets for sustainable diets and food production globally, highlighting pathways to prevent premature mortality within planetary boundaries.
Key Points
- Define quantitative scientific targets for healthy human diets and sustainable food production systems capable of nourishing the projected 2050 global population within planetary boundaries.
- Synthesized epidemiological and nutritional evidence to formulate a universal reference planetary health diet optimizing nutrient intake and health outcomes.
- Modeled global agricultural impacts against five Earth-system processes: greenhouse gas emissions, cropland use, freshwater consumption, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling, and biodiversity loss.
- Universal adoption of the planetary health diet was estimated to prevent approximately 10.8 to 11.6 million adult deaths annually, representing a 19% to 24% reduction in total premature adult mortality.
- Staying within environmental boundaries requires a greater than 50% reduction in global consumption of red meat and sugar alongside a more than 100% increase in the intake of plant-based foods.
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Willett et al. (2019) studied this question.