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Sustainable Diets for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Management

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Purpose of Review

Healthy dietary patterns are recommended for prevention of cardiovascular disease, which remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally. In this review, we discuss dietary patterns that are not only optimal for CVD prevention and management but also sustainable in maximizing health, environmental, and economic benefits.

Recent Findings

The growing literature on sustainable diets in the context of environmental sustainability includes subtopics of climate change, land use, biodiversity loss, freshwater use, and reactive nitrogen emissions. Similarly, economic sustainability, beyond the retail cost of food, extends to healthcare costs and the economic costs of environmental destruction related to current agricultural practices and food choices.

Summary

Dietary patterns that are high in plant foods and low in animal foods could maximize health, environmental, and economic benefits; however, questions remain about how to best promote these patterns to achieve wider adoption in an environmentally and economically sustainable way.

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Mendoza-Vasconez, A.S., Landry, M.J., Crimarco, A. et al. Sustainable Diets for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Management. Curr Atheroscler Rep 23, 31 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11883-021-00929-0

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