Shifting Food Systems: Increasing Well-being through Plant-Based Approaches

Publication date: Available online 21 August 2018Source: EXPLOREAuthor(s): Kathleen M. Kevany, Gene Baur, George C. WangAbstractGrowing evidence reveals food production systems and consumption practices contradict goals for environmental well-being and population health. This interdisciplinary paper reviews research for impacts from diets on non-communicable human diseases, climate change, and animal well-being. With increasing pressures to innovate and reduce economic as well as emotional costs associated with ill-health, our recommendations could positively impact policy.
Source: EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing - Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research