TY - JOUR
T1 - The Future of Plant-Based Diets
T2 - Aligning Healthy Marketplace Choices with Equitable, Resilient, and Sustainable Food Systems
AU - Kraak, Vivica I.
AU - Aschemann-Witzel, Jessica
PY - 2024/5/20
Y1 - 2024/5/20
N2 - The future of plant-based diets is a complex public health issue inextricably linked to planetary health. Shifting the world's population to consume nutrient-rich, plant-based diets is among the most impactful strategies to transition to sustainable food systems to feed 10 billion people by 2050. This review summarizes how international expert bodies define sustainable diets and food systems and describes types of sustainable dietary patterns. It also explores how the type and proportion of plant- versus animal-source foods and alternative proteins relate to sustainable diets to reduce diet-related morbidity and mortality. Thereafter, we synthesize evidence for current challenges and actions needed to achieve plant-based sustainable dietary patterns using a conceptual framework with principles to promote human health, ecological health, social equity, and economic prosperity. We recommend strategies for governments, businesses, and civil society to encourage marketplace choices that lead to plant-rich sustainable diets within healthy, equitable, and resilient agroecological food systems.
AB - The future of plant-based diets is a complex public health issue inextricably linked to planetary health. Shifting the world's population to consume nutrient-rich, plant-based diets is among the most impactful strategies to transition to sustainable food systems to feed 10 billion people by 2050. This review summarizes how international expert bodies define sustainable diets and food systems and describes types of sustainable dietary patterns. It also explores how the type and proportion of plant- versus animal-source foods and alternative proteins relate to sustainable diets to reduce diet-related morbidity and mortality. Thereafter, we synthesize evidence for current challenges and actions needed to achieve plant-based sustainable dietary patterns using a conceptual framework with principles to promote human health, ecological health, social equity, and economic prosperity. We recommend strategies for governments, businesses, and civil society to encourage marketplace choices that lead to plant-rich sustainable diets within healthy, equitable, and resilient agroecological food systems.
KW - alternative proteins
KW - ecological resilience
KW - economic prosperity
KW - human health
KW - planetary health
KW - plant-based diets
KW - social equity
KW - sustainable diets and food systems
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85194018554
U2 - 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-060722-032021
DO - 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-060722-032021
M3 - Review
C2 - 38772624
AN - SCOPUS:85194018554
SN - 0163-7525
VL - 45
SP - 253
EP - 275
JO - Annual Review of Public Health
JF - Annual Review of Public Health
IS - 1
ER -