From "good for people" to "good for people and planet"-Placing health and environment on equal footing when developing food-based dietary guidelines

Sammanfattning

Dietary guidelines are a primary tool for promoting healthier and more sustainable diets. Despite several ex-amples of dietary guidelines that consider -to various degrees -aspects of environmental sustainability, there is currently no framework that systematically incorporates environmental sustainability as a primary consider-ation. We present a five-step framework for developing environmentally sustainable dietary guidelines that would simultaneously meet nutritional requirements while staying within environmental boundaries. The steps comprise: 1) determining an average healthy diet for different population groups and criteria for healthy diets; 2) identifying relevant environmental aspects and establishing corresponding boundaries; 3) identifying systemic effects and crucial sustainability aspects; 4) altering the average diet to meet environmental goals and resolve trade-offs between environmental and nutritional goals; and 5) formulating sustainable food-based dietary guidelines. To exemplify the framework, we pilot it in the Swedish context, but it could be utilised for any other country.

Nyckelord

Dietary guidelines; Environmental sustainability; Food systems; Framework; Sweden

Publicerad i

Food Policy
2023, volym: 117, artikelnummer: 102444
Utgivare: ELSEVIER SCI LTD

SLU författare

• Moberg, Emma

  • Institutionen för energi och teknik, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Van Rysselberge, Pierre

  • Institutionen för energi och teknik, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Röös, Elin

  • Institutionen för energi och teknik, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

UKÄ forskningsämne

Livsmedelsvetenskap
Tvärvetenskapliga studier

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102444

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/122759