Global diets link environmental sustainability and human health

Nature
49.96
Volume: 515, Issue: 7528, Pages: 518 - 522
Published: Nov 27, 2014

Abstract
Diets link environmental and human health. Rising incomes and urbanization are driving a global dietary transition in which traditional diets are replaced by diets higher in refined sugars, refined fats, oils and meats. By 2050 these dietary trends, if unchecked, would be a major contributor to an estimated 80 per cent increase in global agricultural greenhouse gas emissions from food production and to global land clearing. Moreover, these...


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Title
Global diets link environmental sustainability and human health
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Published Date
27 Nov, 2014
Journal
Volume
515
Issue
7528
Pages
518 - 522
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