title: Health, agricultural, and economic effects of adoption of healthy diet recommendations.
abstract: Transition to diets that are high in saturated fat and sugar has caused a global public health concern, as the pattern of food consumption is a major modifiable risk factor for chronic non-communicable diseases. Although agri-food systems are intimately associated with this transition, agriculture and health sectors are largely disconnected in their priorities, policy, and analysis, with neither side considering the complex inter-relation between agri-trade, patterns of food consumption, health, and development. We show the importance of connection of these perspectives through estimation of the eff ect of adopting a healthy diet on population health, agricultural production, trade, the economy, and livelihoods,with a computable general equilibrium approach. On the basis of case-studies from the UK and Brazil, we suggest that benefits of a healthy diet policy will vary substantially between different populations, not only because of population dietary intake but also because of agricultural production, trade, and other economic factors.
authors.affiliation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health, London, UK.
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lock
authors.forename: Richard D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Alan D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Dangour
authors.forename: Marcus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Keogh-Brown
authors.forename: Gessuir
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pigatto
authors.forename: Corinna
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hawkes
authors.forename: Regina Mara
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Fisberg
authors.forename: Zaid
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chalabi
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D001938:Brazil; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000517:prevention & control; D004467:Economics; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D014943:Global Health; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D018673:Nutrition Policy; D009751:Nutritional Requirements; D006113:United Kingdom