Life expectancy and agricultural environmental impacts in Addis Ababa can be improved through optimized plant and animal protein consumption.

Autor: Blakstad MM; Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. mib273@mail.harvard.edu., Danaei G; Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA., Tadesse AW; Addis Continental Institute of Public Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.; Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK., Damerau K; Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.; Institute of Vocational Education and Work Studies, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany., Bellows AL; Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA., Canavan CR; Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA., Bliznashka L; Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA., Zack R; The Greater Boston Food Bank, Boston, MA, USA., Myers SS; Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA., Berhane Y; Addis Continental Institute of Public Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia., Fawzi WW; Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.; Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Nature food [Nat Food] 2021 Apr; Vol. 2 (4), pp. 291-298. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Apr 21.
DOI: 10.1038/s43016-021-00264-2
Abstrakt: In Ethiopia, children and adults face a double burden of malnutrition, with undernutrition and stunting coexisting with non-communicable diseases. Here we use a framework of comparative risk assessment, local dietary surveys and relative risks from large observational studies to quantify the health and environmental impacts of meeting adult and child recommended daily protein intakes in urban Addis Ababa. We find that plant-based foods, especially legumes, would have the lowest environmental impact and substantially increase life expectancy in adults, while animal-source proteins could be beneficial for children. This context-specific approach-accounting for regional constraints and trade-offs-could aid policymakers in developing culturally appropriate, nutritionally adequate and sustainable dietary recommendations.
(© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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