The secret to longer life? A diet that benefits the environment – The Times
A diet designed to tackle unhealthy eating and environmental destruction has been linked to a significantly lower risk of premature death.
The planetary health diet, published in The Lancet five years ago, is a plant-heavy and meat-light diet designed to lower disease risk and agriculture’s impact on climate change and the natural world.
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The diet is “flexitarian” rather than vegetarian, recommending that fruit and vegetables account for half of what a person eats. Most of the protein comes from nuts, beans and lentils, with people advised to eat less than 50g a day each of eggs, fish, meat and sugar. An average quarter-pound beef burger weighs 78g.
In the first large-scale analysis of the diet’s effects on people who stick to it, and on the
