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During the Second World War, a great deal of official attention was paid to ensuring that the UK population had adequate nutrition despite the blockade. [9] Food rationing (1940-1953) restricted consumption of animal products, fats, sugar, and tea, and replaced white bread with the wholegrain National Loaf, increasing vegetable and fiber consumption.
Sustainable diets are typically associated with low-carbon diets, which are structured to combat global warming. [13] The most important example of this is the Plant-based diet . [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Other approaches focus on broader environmental factors as well as social and economic challenges.
Dorothy Frances Hollingsworth OBE (10 May 1916 – 16 February 1994) was a British nutritionist and scientist, who demonstrated that the quality of the British diet was greatly improved by rationing. [1] Hollingsworth both documented and contributed to the improvements in British nutrition during the Second World War.
2017 British Nutrition Foundation 'Drummond Pump Priming Award'. ... Rossi has argued that a plant-based diet is the opposite of a fad diet, it is a sustainable way ...
To ramp up fiber in your life, Gans suggests swapping the current grains in your diet for whole grains. “Instead of white bread, try 100 percent whole-grain bread ,” she says. “Add barley or ...
A low-carbon diet is any diet that results in lower greenhouse gas emissions. [1] [2] Choosing a low carbon diet is one facet of developing sustainable diets which increase the long-term sustainability of humanity. Major tenets of a low-carbon diet include eating a plant-based diet, and in particular little or no beef and dairy. [3]
Sustainable food systems have been argued to be central to many [1] or all [2] 17 Sustainable Development Goals. [3] Moving to sustainable food systems, including via shifting consumption to sustainable diets, is an important component of addressing the causes of climate change and adapting to it.
The committee that drafted it wrote: "The major findings regarding sustainable diets were that a diet higher in plant-based foods, such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds, and lower in calories and animal-based foods is more health promoting and is associated with less environmental impact than is the current U.S. diet.