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Towards Healthy and Sustainable Diets

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Public Health Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-74204-5

ISBN: 978-3-319-74203-8

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Feb 23, 2018

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Chapter 1“Sustainability Is More than Reducing Greenhouse Emissions”: Different Perspectives on Sustainability

Sarlio, Sirpa

Pages: 1 –21

[Sustainability can be defined in many ways. This chapter describes various dimensions of environmental sustainability including the impact of the climate, human use of land, water and other resources, biodiversity, eutrophication, and the impact and relevance of these dimensions to food systems....
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Chapter 2“When Enough Is Not Enough”: Our Food Systems Are Badly Out of Balance

Sarlio, Sirpa

Pages: 23 –41

[Today’s food systems are badly out of balance. The current agricultural system is producing more than enough food to feed everyone on the planet but access to such food and its consumption is very uneven. Some 209 million children are undernourished but 41 million children and nearly 2 billion...
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Chapter 3“Insects, Aquaculture and Mycoproteins Instead of Beef?”: Choosing Healthy and Sustainable Meals

Sarlio, Sirpa

Pages: 43 –62

[This chapter evaluates the health and sustainability aspects of different foods including meat and dairy, fish, vegetables, fruit and berries, stable carbohydrates, sugar, fats, and oils. It also discusses dietary patterns, the importance of food-based dietary guidelines on healthy and...
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Chapter 4“Serving Sustainable and Healthy Food to Consumers and Decision Makers”: From Commitments to Action

Sarlio, Sirpa

Pages: 63 –82

[Although most countries have a nutrition policy, sustainability is rarely incorporated into dietary guidelines or paid serious attention to in food and nutrition policies. There is lack of coherence in politics, and powerful corporate, political and other interests tend to impede the process....
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Chapter 5Erratum to: “Sustainability Is More than Reducing Greenhouse Emissions”: Different Perspectives on Sustainability

Sarlio, Sirpa

Pages: E1 –E1

[The figure 1.3 in chapter 1 has been inadvertently published without the source credit line and it has been updated as mentioned below.]

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