Title Sustainable diets: food for healthy people and a healthy planet : workshop summary / Leslie Pray, rapporteur ; Food Forum, Food and Nutrition Board, Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (1 PDF file (xiv, 141 pages)) : illustrations Contents Introduction -- Defining relationships: synergies and trade-offs between health and environmental impacts -- Quantifying synergies and trade-offs: moving forward from conceptual links to empirical data -- The food price environment -- Options and approaches to enable sustainable food choices -- Moving forward -- Appendixes Summary One of the many benefits of the U.S. food system is a safe, nutritious, and consistent food supply. However, the same system also places significant strain on land, water, air, and other natural resources. A better understanding of the food-environment synergies and trade-offs associated with the U.S. food system would help to reduce this strain. Many experts would like to use that knowledge to develop dietary recommendations on the basis of environmental as well as nutritional considerations. But identifying and quantifying those synergies and trade-offs, let alone acting on them, is a challenge in and of itself. The difficulty stems in part from the reality that experts in the fields of nutrition, agricultural science, and natural resource use often do not regularly collaborate with each other, with the exception of some international efforts. Sustainable Diets is the summary of a workshop convened by The Institute of Medicine's Food Forum and Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine in May 2013 to engender dialogue between experts in nutrition and experts in agriculture and natural resource sustainability and to explore current and emerging knowledge on the food and nutrition policy implications of the increasing environmental constraints on the food system. Experts explored the relationship between human health and the environment, including the identification and quantification of the synergies and trade-offs of their impact. This report explores the role of the food price environment and how environmental sustainability can be incorporated into dietary guidance and considers research priorities, policy implications, and drivers of consumer behaviors that will enable sustainable food choices Notes Title from PDF title page Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes This activity was supported by Contract Nos. HHSP233201200333P (Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health), HHSN26300002 (National Institutes of Health), and 59-1235-2-114, CNPP-IOM-FY2012-01, FS-IOM-FY2012-01, and AG-3A94-P-12-0088 (U.S. Department of Agriculture) and with the National Academy of Sciences. Additional support came from Abbott Laboratories, Cargill, Inc., ConAgra Foods, General Mills, Inc., Kellogg Company, Kraft Foods, Mars, Inc., McDonald's, Mead Johnson and Company, Monsanto Company, Nestle Nutrition, PepsiCo, and The Coca-Cola Company. The views presented in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the organizations or agencies that provided support for the activity English Online resource (viewed on May 16, 2014) Subject Agriculture -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses Sustainable agriculture -- Congresses Food supply -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses Nutrition -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses Health -- Congresses Food supply. Agriculture. Conservation of natural resources. Diet in disease. Environmental health. Nutrition policy. Food Supply Agriculture Conservation of Natural Resources Diet Environmental Health Nutrition Policy farming (activity or system) agriculture (discipline) BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General. Nutrition policy Food supply Environmental health Diet in disease Conservation of natural resources Agriculture Agriculture -- Environmental aspects Food supply -- Environmental aspects Health Nutrition -- Environmental aspects Sustainable agriculture SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 Genre/Form proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Form Electronic book Author Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Food Forum, issuing body. Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, issuing body. Sustainable Diets: Food for Healthy People and a Healthy Planet (Workshop) (2013 : Washington, D.C.) LC no. 2014451361 ISBN 9780309296670 0309296676 9780309296687 0309296684

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