Environmental and human health trade-offs in potential Chinese dietary shifts
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•Balanced diets prevent more than one million premature deaths annually in China •More fruit and vegetables benefit health but increase environmental burdens •Dietary choices affect PM2.5 air quality via NH3 emissions from food production soy protein reduces impacts has moderate benefits Dietary shifts staples toward meats, fruits, impacts. Excessive red meat intake micro-nutrient deficiencies also raise concerns. Previous research examined consequences of alternative overlooked on pollution land use change. Here we examine implications four potential Chinese dietary ammonia particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, carbon storage loss associated with land-use change, water use, human health. We show that a diet replaces the environment avoids 57,000 PM2.5-related annually. benefits, however, appear larger adoption Guideline (CDG) EAT-Lancet diets, which over However, both GHGs. CDG increases it by cutting dairy meat. Complex trade-offs emphasize need for further improvements agricultural management to enable health-environment co-benefits.
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عنوان ژورنال: One earth
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2590-3322', '2590-3330']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2022.02.002