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This is the right diet to choose if you want to help reduce climate change

Photo credit: Evgenija Lanz / EyeEm - Getty Images
Photo credit: Evgenija Lanz / EyeEm - Getty Images

From Country Living

Cutting our sugar, dairy and red meat intake by just 50% would help reduce climate change, according to a new report.

A study published in medical journal The Lancet, by 30 scientists from around the world, recommended a largely plant-based diet with occasional allowances for dairy, red meat and sugar as the best way to eat to help secure the future of the planet.

Scientists have been scrambling to find a way to feed a global population of 10 billion people by 2050, according to National Geographic.

They say any increase in meat or dairy farming could be catastrophic for temperatures in the next 40 years because of the intense farming methods used. But if we were to switch to a more plant-based diet in the western world, climate change-inducing gases could be reduced and enough land could be reserved to feed the world's growing population.

High meat-consuming countries like the US and the UK need to focus more on fresh produce, the study concludes. While developing countries, who already follow a relatively plant-based diet, could increase their intake by around 3%.

So what would we be eating day to day on this flexitarian, semi-vegetarian diet? The BBC has put together this handy guide:

  1. Nuts - 50g a day

  2. Beans, chickpeas, lentils and other legumes - 75g a day

  3. Fish - 28g a day

  4. Eggs - 13g a day (so one and a bit a week)

  5. Meat - 14g a day of red meat and 29g a day of chicken

  6. Carbs - whole grains like bread and rice 232g a day and 50g a day of starchy vegetables

  7. Dairy - 250g - the equivalent of one glass of milk

  8. Vegetables -(300g) and fruit (200g)

Scientists have also called for action on food waste. Between £250 and £400-worth of food per household in the UK currently ends up in landfill every year. Download these environmentally-friendly apps to help reduce your food waste.

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