{"id":9418,"date":"2023-03-20T11:29:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T11:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/?p=9418"},"modified":"2023-03-19T17:40:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T17:40:57","slug":"diets-health-carbon-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/2023\/03\/diets-health-carbon-footprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Diets, health & carbon footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I spotted this week\u2019s paper on the Medical Xpress news website and a couple of people also emailed me about it. The headline I saw was \u201cKeto vs. vegan: Study of popular diets finds over fourfold difference in carbon footprints\u201d (Ref 1). The paper behind the news headline was called \u201cPopular diets as selected by adults in the United States show wide variation in carbon footprints and diet quality\u201d and it was by O\u2019Malley et al (Ref 2).\n <\/p>\n

The study<\/strong>\n <\/p>\n

The aim of this study was to estimate the carbon footprint and diet quality of what were called \u201cpopular diets\u201d among US consumers. This paper used data on 16,412 people from the NHANES 2005-2010 population study. The NHANES study was based on one 24-hour recall of diet from the participants. Based on the diet information from this one recollection, the researchers assigned participants to one of six diets: vegan, vegetarian, pescetarian, paleo, keto and all other diets. We\u2019ll cover how the diets were defined next.\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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