**Planetary Health Diet**:
– Heavy restrictions on meat, dairy, and starchy vegetables
– Aims to reduce environmental impact of meat and dairy industries
– Targets to decrease saturated fat and sugar intake
– Emphasizes diverse plant-based foods and limited animal source foods
– Specific scientific targets for a planetary health diet
– Positive coverage by The Guardian and CNN
– Criticism on individual responsibility for climate change
– Withdrawal of WHO sponsorship due to concerns about traditional diets and job loss
– Challenges to the planetary diet by critics
– Defense of the diet’s methodology by supporters
**Cost and Affordability**:
– Varies in affordability for different populations
– Challenges raised on the diet not addressing the needs of the poor
– 1.6 billion people may not afford the EAT-Lancet reference diet
– More affordable than the typical Australian diet
– Affordability analysis by researchers from IFPRI and Tufts University
**Comparison with Recommended Diet Patterns**:
– Agreements and differences with the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
– Comparison of the average Indian diet with the planetary diet
– Identification of unhealthy aspects in the average Indian diet
– Studies highlighting similarities and differences between dietary guidelines
**Key Figures in Vegetarianism**:
– William Alcott
– Ernest Bell
– Rynn Berry
– Maximilian Bircher-Benner
– Henry S. Clubb
**Prominent Advocates, Health Experts, and Writers on Vegetarianism**:
– Prominent advocates like Carol J. Adams and Howard Williams
– Notable health experts such as David L. Katz and Michael Klaper
– Influential writers on vegetarianism like George Bedborough and James Rachels
The planetary health diet, also called a planetary diet or planetarian diet, is a flexitarian diet created by the EAT-Lancet commission as part of a report released in The Lancet on 16 January 2019. The aim of the report and the diet it developed is to create dietary paradigms that have the following aims:
- To feed a world population of 10 billion people in 2050
- To greatly reduce the worldwide number of deaths caused by poor diet
- To be environmentally sustainable as to prevent the collapse of the natural world
