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Plant-based diet
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Comparative Exergy and Environmental Assessment of the Residual Biomass Gasification Routes for Hydrogen and Ammonia Production
Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego
The need to reduce the dependency of chemicals on fossil fuels has recently motivated the adoption of renewable energies in those sectors. In addition, due to a growing population, the treatment and disposition of residual biomass from agricultural process ...
2023Combining European and US risk prediction models with polygenic risk scores to refine cardiovascular prevention: the CoLaus|PsyCoLaus Study
Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball, Stéphane Fournier, Roxane De La Harpe
Lay Summary The aim of this study is to determine whether using polygenic risk scores improves the prediction of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk when combined with clinical scores currently recommended by European and US guidelines on cardiovas ...
OXFORD UNIV PRESS2023Cognitive Impairment and Metabolite Profile Alterations in the Hippocampus and Cortex of Male and Female Mice Exposed to a Fat and Sugar-Rich Diet are Normalized by Diet Reversal
João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Adélaïde Alice Mohr
Diabetes impacts on brain metabolism, structure, and function. Alterations in brain metabolism have been observed in obesity and diabetes models induced by exposure to diets rich in saturated fat and/or sugar and have been linked to memory impairment. Howe ...
INT SOC AGING & DISEASE2022Drivers and Barriers Toward Healthy and Environmentally Sustainable Eating in Switzerland: Linking Impacts to Intentions and Practices
Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Ivo Philippe Baur, Ralph Hansmann
Food consumption is among the activities with the most significant environmental impacts, and furthermore contributes to rising health costs. We explored the factors that foster or hinder healthy and sustainable eating in Switzerland. Based on an online ho ...
2022Computational Approaches for Studying Dietary Behaviors with Digital Traces
Human nutrition and dietary habits shape our health, daily life, societies, the environment, and life on earth in general. However, it remains challenging to understand and attempt to change dietary behaviors using traditional methods due to measurement an ...
EPFL2022Diet Patterns and Dietary Change in Europe and Associated Environmental and Health Impacts
Food consumption in Europe is associated with increasing health- and environmental impacts and innovative interventions for healthy and sustainable eating are needed throughout the continent. These interventions need to be based on a solid, holistic unders ...
2020Drivers and barriers towards healthy and environmentally friendly eating habits in Switzerland
Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Ivo Philippe Baur, Ralph Hansmann
Food consumption in Switzerland is the activity with the largest environmental impact, which also contributes significantly to rising health costs. Therefore, it is a crucial societal aim to better understand the drivers and barriers to healthy and sustain ...
2020Large-scale regionalised LCA shows that plant-based fat spreads have a lower climate, land occupation and water scarcity impact than dairy butter
Purpose In light of the sustainable diet debate, we conducted a large-scale regionalised LCA to answer the following questions: (i) does the climate advantage hypothesis of plant-based fat spreads and creams over dairy butter and cream hold regardless of t ...
2020Towards Win-Win Policies for Healthy and Sustainable Diets in Switzerland
The first Swiss national dietary survey (MenuCH) was used to screen disease burdens and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) of Swiss diets (vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, slimming), with a focus on gender and education level. The Health Nutritional Index (HENI ...
MDPI2020Why people change their diets: Triggers and facilitators towards healthier and more sustainable eating habits
Ivo Philippe Baur, Ralph Hansmann
To foster healthier and more sustainable eating habits, we need to better understand causes of dietary change on the individual level. This includes differentiating the factors that trigger good versus bad dietary change with regards to health and environm ...
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