Poor diet diversity, inadequate nutrition intake, and food insecurity are major challenges that are aggravated with climate change. To this day, there is no clear definition of a healthy and sustainable diet. Consumers in multiple contexts are faced with daily decisions of what to eat without appropriate recommendations to meet their daily nutrition and energy requirements. Dietary guidelines at national, regional, and local levels should consider a wide range of characteristics when suggesting a healthy diet, such as consumer's income, access to food, and dietary preferences. This solution...
Poor diet diversity, inadequate nutrition intake, and food insecurity are major challenges that are aggravated with climate change. To this day, there is no clear definition of a healthy and sustainable diet. Consumers in multiple contexts are faced with daily decisions of what to eat without appropriate recommendations to meet their daily nutrition and energy requirements. Dietary guidelines at national, regional, and local levels should consider a wide range of characteristics when suggesting a healthy diet, such as consumer's income, access to food, and dietary preferences. This solution proposes to develop and measure context-specific sustainable healthy diets that consider the social/cultural, economic, environmental, and determinants of health and nutrition. This could be for instance, a comprehensive dietary guideline toolkit (recommend, implement, measure, monitor, evaluate), or sustainable healthy recipes, or classroom training materials around sustainable and healthier consumption habit. This innovation could be used as a target for nutrition programs in policy to ensure that the recommended healthy diet is accessible, available, affordable and considers the environmental and cultural lens.
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Increasing the adherence to healthy and sustainable dietary guidelines to consumers living in rural areas could reduce the burden of malnutrition and diet-related non-communicable diseases as well as improve local environmental degradation.