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The healthiness and sustainability of national and global food based dietary guidelines: modelling study

Marco Springmann, Luke Spajic, Michael Clark, Joseph Poore, Anna Herforth, Patrick Webb, Mike Rayner, Peter Scarborough

BMJ · 2020

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Summary

OBJECTIVE: To analyse the health and environmental implications of adopting national food based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) at a national level and compared with global health and environmental targets. DESIGN: Modelling study. SETTING: 85 countries. PARTICIPANTS: Population of 85 countries. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: A graded coding method was developed and used to extract quantitative recommendations from 85 FBDGs. The health and environmental impacts of these guidelines were assessed by using a comparative risk assessment of deaths from chronic diseases and a set of country specific environmental footprints for greenhouse gas emissions, freshwater use, cropland use, and fertiliser application. For comparison, the impacts of adopting the global dietary recommendations of the World Health Orga

Subject
Climate & greenhouse gas mitigation
Source type
Peer-reviewed study
System type
Other
DOI
10.1136/bmj.m2322
Catalogue ID
BFmommpjz9-1w67wh
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