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Sustainable eating

How to eat food that’s healthy, sustainable and affordable

Sustainable eating involves eating food that's good for you, good for the planet and good for your community.

Are you eating a properly balanced diet? : Michael Joiner, 360info CC BY 4.0 Are you eating a properly balanced diet? : Michael Joiner, 360info CC BY 4.0

Sustainable eating involves eating food that’s good for you, good for the planet and good for your community.

On June 18 each year, the world marks Sustainable Gastronomy Day.

Sustainable gastronomy is about eating food that is good for you, good for the planet and good for your community.

But it can be easier said than done to simultaneously optimise the health, environmental and cultural components of our diets, particularly in the middle of a cost of living crisis.

Luckily research can help, from better educating us about what makes a food choice eco-friendly and how returning to more ancient foods can be more sustainable, to using mathematical models to optimise our diets.

Featuring articles from:

  • Bianca Wassmann, environmental psychologist and postdoctoral researcher at the Urban Microalgae-Based Protein Production project at the Singapore-ETH Centre and ETH Zurich.
  • Yasmina Sultanbawa, Director of the ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Uniquely Australian Foods, and Director of the Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, part of the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation at The University of Queensland.
  • David Raubenheimer, Leonard P Ullmann Chair in Nutritional Ecology at the University of Sydney.

Originally published under Creative Commons by 360info™.

Editors Note: In the story “Sustainable eating” sent at: 18/06/2024 09:23.

This is a corrected repeat.

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