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Sustainable Diets: Food for Healthy People and a Healthy Planet: Workshop Summary

Sustainable Diets: Food for Healthy People and a Healthy Planet: Workshop Summary

Institute of Medicine
Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice
Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences Research and Med

Paperback

Diet & NutritionMedical ReferenceEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 0309296676
ISBN13: 9780309296670
Publisher: Natl Academy Pr
Published: Mar 4 2014
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

One of the many benefits of the U.S. food system is a safe, nutritious, and consistent food supply. However, the same system also places significant strain on land, water, air, and other natural resources. A better understanding of the food-environment synergies and trade-offs associated with the U.S. food system would help to reduce this strain. Many experts would like to use that knowledge to develop dietary recommendations on the basis of environmental as well as nutritional considerations. But identifying and quantifying those synergies and trade-offs, let alone acting on them, is a challenge in and of itself. The difficulty stems in part from the reality that experts in the fields of nutrition, agricultural science, and natural resource use often do not regularly collaborate with each other, with the exception of some international efforts.

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