{"id":182,"date":"2016-08-02T12:40:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T12:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sinead-moran\/?p=182"},"modified":"2016-08-02T12:41:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T12:41:16","slug":"health-co-beniftis-of-eating-a-sustainable-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sinead-moran\/2016\/08\/02\/health-co-beniftis-of-eating-a-sustainable-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Co-Benefits of eating a sustainable diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">As discussed in other blog entries, eating a sustainable diet is vital if we are to reach the 2c target set down by the Paris Agreement [1]. Evidence for the environmental benefits of reducing consumption of meat and dairy products is continuing to build [2-6]. If we don\u2019t begin to tackle the demand-side of agriculture, particularly meat and dairy consumption and current diets are left unchecked, agriculture will use up to 20 of the 23 GtCO2e yearly limit to 2050 [7].<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-186 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sinead-moran\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/08\/blog4-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"blog4\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sinead-moran\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/08\/blog4-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sinead-moran\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/08\/blog4-768x1044.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sinead-moran\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/08\/blog4-753x1024.jpg 753w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sinead-moran\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/08\/blog4.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><em>[Pic 1.] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexandermuench.com\/Eat-Less-Meat-Editorial-Illustration\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.alexandermuench.com\/Eat-Less-Meat-Editorial-Illustration<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, it\u2019s important to acknowledge the \u2018health co-benefits\u2019 of eating an environmentally friendly sustainable diet. Focusing on meat and dairy consumption, a new study in the US has highlighted the benefits of substituting animal based protein with plant based proteins <a href=\"https:\/\/archinte.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleid=2540540\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archinte.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleid=2540540<\/a>. It found that for every 3% calorie increase in plant protein the risk of death from all causes is reduced by 10%. It also emphasises a 12% reduced risk of death from heart disease [9].<\/p>\n<p>In light of the fact that health concerns are more often than not, valued higher than environmental and climate change concerns, it is important to highlight the associated heath co-benefits of eating a sustainable diet [8]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>The message is the same, eat less meat\/dairy for a healthly you and a healthly planet \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-184 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sinead-moran\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/08\/blog1.jpg\" alt=\"blog1\" width=\"273\" height=\"273\" \/><em>[Pic 2.] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.babble.com\/best-recipes\/8-easy-ways-to-eat-less-meat\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.babble.com\/best-recipes\/8-easy-ways-to-eat-less-meat\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>References [numbered] link:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sinead-moran\/bibliography\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sinead-moran\/bibliography\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As discussed in other blog entries, eating a sustainable diet is vital if we are to reach the 2c target set down by the Paris Agreement [1]. Evidence for the environmental benefits of reducing consumption of meat and dairy products is continuing to build [2-6]. If we don\u2019t begin to tackle the demand-side of agriculture, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,33,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-healthly-diethealthly-planet","category-sustainable-diets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sinead-moran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sinead-moran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sinead-moran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sinead-moran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sinead-moran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sinead-moran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sinead-moran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sinead-moran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sinead-moran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sinead-moran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}