Harvard Study: Planetary Health Index Diet – lower mortality and 30% lower CO2 • Hacker News Board

Post by Jensson » Sun, Jun 23, 2024, 9:45 AM UTC

manmal wrote: post #15

Jensson wrote: post #8

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Only when factories focus on making addictive instead of healthy food. You can ruin the food yourself in the same way. Different cultures do this differently, so you see much healthier fast food packages in some countries than others.

Food isn’t all about macros, you need to get your micronutrients (minerals etc), which heavy processing partially removes. There’s also the rabbit hole of soil quality, where a plant can only contain the nutrients its soil has offered (copper, molybdenum, humic acid etc), where organic food tends to be better because soil health is actually looked at.

> which heavy processing partially removes

Only because they don't focus on micronutrients.

> where organic food tends to be better because soil health is actually looked at.

You don't think large scale farmers look at soil health? Every single large scale farmer knows about soil health.

Post by hifromwork » Sun, Jun 23, 2024, 8:37 PM UTC

xenonite wrote: post #11

hifromwork wrote: post #7

It looks like they asked (a large number of) participants what they eat, and checked a correlation between their health and how closely they follow their Planetary Health Diet[1]. First, I don't see any attempt to control for the fact that people who eat "healthy" diets (vegetarian, vegan, avoid sugars and red meat, etc) are often the same people who care about exercise, do routine health checks etc. So even if the d…

About your third point: raising animals on pastures is not necessarily worse regards climate compared to growing vegetables on fields. It may well be the other way around. For example: the humus layer is much deeper with grass, hence storing more CO2. About your second point, you name it as "fact" that too much red meat is problematic. Scientists are not so sure if it is about the meat or about some side-effect, like…

>About your second point, you name it as "fact" that too much red meat is problematic.

Too much red meat is tautologically problematic, because too much of anything (including water) is problematic :). I'm not a dietician so I don't have opinion on this, but I was thinking mostly of a common western diet full of highly-processed, highly fat and overly salty meats.

Harvard Study: Planetary Health Index Diet – lower mortality and 30% lower CO2

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