{"id":6800,"date":"2019-11-26T08:57:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T05:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6800"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","slug":"food-for-thought-dietary-changes-can-improve-our-health-health-of-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/26\/food-for-thought-dietary-changes-can-improve-our-health-health-of-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Food For Thought: Dietary Changes Can Improve Our Health, Health Of Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UN News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our\nhealth and what we eat are inextricably linked. A balanced, nutritious diet\ngives us energy, keeps us focused and keeps many medical conditions at bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\nwhat and how we eat is just as important to planetary health, and right now our\ndiets are helping to create a sickly Earth. Growing consumption of resource\nintensive-food, such as (red) meats, ultra-processed food, combined with a huge\namount of food waste, is driving the conversion of land for agriculture\u2014which\nis destroying ecosystems, reducing biodiversity, and contributing to climate\nchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One-third of our food is lost or wasted, generating eight per cent of greenhouse gas emissions at a cost of US$1 trillion per year. This is happening while 820 million people are undernourished. Emissions from the food sector could rise by 40 per cent by 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Momentum\nis growing, however, for a shift to sustainable diets that protect the health\nof people and planet. At the C40 cities network summit in Copenhagen, just\nbefore this year\u2019s celebration of World Food Day, 14 cities signed up to the\nPlanetary Health Diet. If adopted universally, this diet would reduce\ngreenhouse gas emissions, feed 10 billion people and save 11 million lives each\nyear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According\nto the EAT-Lancet Commission, a planetary health plate should consist largely\nof vegetables and fruits, with the rest made up with whole grains, plant\nprotein sources, unsaturated plant oils, and, occasionally, small amounts of\nmeat or fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayors\nfrom Barcelona to Toronto are promising to change the food cities buy, cut food\nloss and waste, and introduce policies that make healthy and low-carbon food\naffordable and accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe old saying goes, \u2018You are what you eat\u2019, but our planet is also being shaped by what we put in our stomachs,\u201d said Clementine O\u2019Connor, Programme Officer on Sustainable Food Systems. \u201cWe all need to think more carefully about diets that improve planetary health, as well as our own.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/food-thought-dietary-changes-can-improve-our-health-health-planet\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN News Our health and what we eat are inextricably linked. A balanced, nutritious diet gives us energy, keeps us focused and keeps many medical conditions at bay. But&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}