[PDF] eat lancet critique

Is the EAT-Lancet diet too expensive?

BERLIN — When new research came out in November showing that the EAT-Lancet reference diet was too costly for nearly 1.6 billion people in the world, headlines zeroed in on the diet's unaffordability as the latest evidence of its impracticality.

What are the EAT-Lancet guidelines?

The EAT-Lancet guidelines, which were unveiled earlier this year, were meant to advance toward a food system that nutritiously feeds all of the world's estimated population of 10 billion people in 2050, while also accounting for environmental sustainability.

What is the EAT-Lancet Commission?

The controversial EAT-Lancet Commission, which advocates a plant-based diet to promote better human and planetary health, hit a bump recently when the World Health Organization (WHO) backed out of one of the commission’s high-profile public events.