Environmental and economic sustainability of the Mediterranean Diet
Environmental and economic sustainability of the Mediterranean Diet
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DOI：
10.3109/09637486.2014.945152
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发表时间：
2014-12-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
del Balzo, Valeria
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作者：
Germani, Alessia;Vitiello, Valeria;del Balzo, Valeria
地中海饮食(MD)被认为是一种预防疾病的健康饮食模式。然而，关于这种饮食模式的成本和环境影响的信息很少。我们比较了意大利人和地中海人目前的食物消费模式对环境的影响和成本，以考察其整体可持续性。以碳足迹、生态足迹和水足迹三个指标计算环境影响。根据2013年经济发展部的观察站价格和关税以及农业、食品和林业部的服务短信消费者的数据，每周考虑MD和当前意大利家庭食品支出的人均成本(欧元)。与意大利人目前的食物消费相比，MD对环境的影响更小。与意大利人口目前分配给食品的支出相比，MD在总体预算中的每月支出略高，但根据不同的食品类别，预算分配有很大差异。
The Mediterranean diet (MD) has been proposed as a healthy dietary pattern for disease prevention. However, little information exists on the cost and on the environmental impact of such a dietary model. We compared the environmental impact and the costs of the current food consumption pattern of the Italian population and the Mediterranean model in order to investigate its overall sustainability. The environmental impact was calculated on the basis of three indexes, i.e. Carbon, Ecological and Water Footprint. The costs (Euro) per person of the MD and of the current Italian household food expenditure were considered on a weekly basis according to the 2013 data from the Observatory prices and tariffs of the Ministry of Economic Development and the service SMS consumers of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry. The MD resulted to produce a lower environmental impact than the current food consumption of the Italian population. The monthly expenditure of the MD is slightly higher in the overall budget compared to the current expenditure allocated to food by the Italian population, but there is a substantial difference in the distribution of budget according to the different food groups.