Evaluation of Popular Diets for Sustainability

Abstract

According to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2021 report, between 720 and 811 million people in the world faced hunger. Therefore, transforming food systems for food security, improved nutrition and affordable healthy diets for all is important issue in the fight against hunger. Healthy diets can also play a considerable role in increasing the sustainability of food systems. But can all healthy diets also be considered sustainable diets? Sustainable diets are low in environmental effects, culturally acceptable, accessible, economically viable, nutritionally adequate, safe, and healthy. As can be understood from the definition, being healthy can actually be considered as one of the conditions necessary for the sustainability of diets. While examining diets in terms of sustainability, aspects such as environmental effects, cultural acceptability and economic accessibility should also be evaluated. The aim of this review is to evaluation sustainability of popular diets eaten for their health effects, applied by many people to achieve weight loss, or to prevent or provide treatment for various diseases.

Keywords

• Popular diets
• Sustainability
• Mediterranean diet
• Vegetarian diet
• Nordic diet