A protein profile “with low contribution from meat has great potential for human health and environment preservation, and “shifting a large part of the population toward this profile could be an easy first step toward building a more sustainable diet.”
This is according to a new study being published in the peer-reviewed journal Science of the Total Environment, and published ahead of print by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. It was conducted by researchers at the Université Paris-Saclay and Sorbonne Paris Nord University, both in France.
“Patterns of protein intake are strong characteristics of diets, and protein sources have been linked to the environmental and nutrition/health impacts of diets”, states the study’s abstract. “However, few studies have worked on protein profiles, and most of them have focused on specific diets like vegetarian or vegan diets.”