Category: Diet
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What snacks should you eat if you want to reduce your carbon footprint? Professor Bridle’s book ‘Food and climate change without the hot air’ analyses the most popular snacks we eat and suggest ways we can make small changes in our snacks to change our carbon footprint. Chocolate Chocolate bars will vary in their carbon…
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Coffee is big business with two billion cups consumed every year. Coffee drinking is set to change a lot over the coming decades because it is an industry heavily impacted by climate change. We mostly consume two types of coffee beans, Arabica and Robusta, and 75% of them are made in five countries Ethiopia, Vietnam,…
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There has been a bit of a backlash to veganism lately and the number of people reporting to be vegetarian or vegan has gone down. It used to be a growing trend in the UK and around the world, but this trend has gone into reverse with populism and culture wars spreading misinformation about diets…
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In a Net Zero scenario, the global population cannot afford to be on the diet that they are on today. The reason being that there is not enough space to raise animals to feed 10 billion people on a meat-rich diet in 2050. Research from ‘Our World in Data’ shows almost half of the world’s…
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Are you concerned about your skin? Research consistently shows plant-based diets can really help with the most common chronic skin conditions and reduce the ageing process. Plant based diets are the most compatible with Net Zero scenarios and it can bring so many benefits to our health. The diet is particular good for our skin…
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Is it possible to get enough protein in your diet if you reduce the amount of meat you eat? Can carbon footprint of your diet still be low if you are eating plants as a substitute that have come from abroad? This article was inspired from a comment I saw on Instagram about someone expressing…
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Our guest author, Leticia Drier, nutritionist discusses the benefits of a plant-based diet and how we can use it to improve our health. You might have heard about the idea of eating 30+ plant foods a week to improve your health. It comes from research by The British and American Gut Project (2018) which revealed…
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If you are choosing a drink when you are going out, how could you choose a drink with lower carbon emissions? It is not obvious what type of drink is likely to have a lower carbon footprint. What seems like a ‘green’ option may not be. Research by Professor Bridle shows it all depends on…
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A plant-based diet is the most compatible diet with a Net Zero world. Only diet can sustain a world population that could grow to 10 billion people in the future. In a plant-based diet, plants make up to at least two thirds of your diet and meat only makes up to one third. Plants do…
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Do your favourite meals include beef, such as Spaghetti Bolognese or a burger? Beef has the highest carbon footprint of all meat because it is the main cause of deforestation in the world and the main reason for the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Cows also produce methane when they digest food, which is another…