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Diet Choices, Environment

Mediterranean-Style Diets Have Lower Carbon Footprints Than High-Protein Diets

When you think of the Mediterranean diet and other diets in general, you tend to think of the health impacts on those that eat it. One thing that does not always come to mind is how specific diet choices affect the environment. In this time of climate change, understanding how diet choices impact the environment, and in particular carbon emissions or “carbon footprints”, is just as important as how it affects us as individuals.

A new study in the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy

Photo from wikimedia.com. Public domain.
Photo from wikimedia.com. Public domain.

aimed to evaluate the carbon footprints of various diets in the setting of a Spanish hospital, in a preliminary attempt to possibly provide menu change recommendations in other industries.

Diet data was collected from Juan Ramón Jiménez Hospital in Huelva, Spain. In addition to the typical diet found at this hospital (one weeks’ worth in the winter), information on 17 other therapeutic diets published by Benidorm Clinical Hospital was used for this analysis.

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Diet Choices, Environmental Contaminants

New Study Finds Diet Influences Levels of Environmental Contaminants in the Blood Using Questionable Logic

Environmental contaminants, such as bisphenol-A (BPA), endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs), other plastic-originating compounds, and persistent organic pollutants in general, are widespread in our environment and also in the foods that we eat on a daily basis. There

Photo By Bretwood Higman, Ground Truth Trekking. [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Photo By Bretwood Higman, Ground Truth Trekking. [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
is some debate that BPA and other EDCs are harmful to human health, but in general the lines of those debates are a result of political and financially-motivated agendas.

For more on the harm BPA and other EDCs cause on the environment and on your health, please visit stealthepidemic.com, a website founded by Lewis Perdue and Becca Yeamans-Irwin (the co-editors of the French Paradox site).

Other sources of environmental contaminants are known to come from the food chain, like mercury in fish and pesticides in various fruits and vegetables.

A new study looked at the associations, if any, between environmental contaminants circulating in the human body and diet type. Could eating a certain type of diet reduce the levels of harmful environmental contaminants in the body? Or does diet not affect these levels in the blood?

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