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Food affects the environment
Eating healthy food is almost always also the best for the environment.
Researchers say poor diets seriously harm people and the planet. Foods such as fruit, vegetables, beans, and whole grains are best for avoiding disease and protecting the climate and water resources, while red and processed meat cause the most ill health and pollution.
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- Fish is generally a healthy choice but have a bigger environmental footprint on average.
- High-sugar foods have a low impact on the planet but are damaging to your health.
- Some farming groups argue only intensively produced meat is harmful to the environment.
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A healthy guideline
Global ill-health costs from diabetes alone are similar to the total value of farming in the global economy.
- Researchers calculated that producing unprocessed red meat has the highest impact on all environmental indicators.
- Food with medium environmental impacts or not as...
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However, another cause may be diets. Japan largely banned meat for 1,200 years, and still consumes relatively little meat and dairy. Too much of these can be damaging, since they contain saturated fatty acids, which correlate to heart disease. Studies have also tied eating lots of processed red m...
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