Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

Food systems have the potential to nurture human health and support environmental sustainability; however, they are currently threatening both. Providing a growing global population with healthy diets from sustainable food systems is an immediate challenge. Although global food production of calories has kept pace with population growth, more than 820 million people have insufficient food and many more consume low-quality diets that cause micronutrient deficiencies and contribute to a substantial rise in the incidence of diet-related obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases, including coronary heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. Unhealthy diets pose a greater risk to morbidity and mortality than does unsafe sex, and alcohol, drug, and tobacco use combined. Because much of the world's population is inadequately nourished and many environmental systems and processes are pushed beyond safe boundaries by food production, a global transformation of the food system is urgently needed.

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Keywords: Coronary-heart-disease; Greenhouse-gas Emissions; Trans-fatty-acids; Sub-saharan Africa; Cardiovascular-disease; Meat Consumption; Carbohydrate Intake; Nut Consumption; Climate-change; Breast-cancer

Citation: Willett, W., Rockstrom, J., Loken, B., Springmann, M., Lang, T., Vermeulen, S., Garnett, T., Tilman, D., DeClerck, F., Wood, A., Jonell, M., Clark, M., Gordon, L.J., Fanzo, J., Hawkes, C., Zurayk, R., Rivera, J.A., De Vries, W., Sibanda, L.M., Afshin, A., Chaudhary, A., Herrero, M., Agustina, R., Branca, F., Lartey, A., Fan, S.G., Crona, B., Fox, E., Bignet, V., Troell, M., Lindahl, T., Singh, ., Cornell, S.E., Reddy, K.S., Narain, S., Nishtar, S., and Murray, C.J.L. (2019). Lancet 393 (10170): 447-492.

Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

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