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#Foodcanfixit: an international team of scientists has made a bold promise of health and sustainability … in a hashtag. A dramatic global change in diet and food production has the power to prevent roughly 11 million deaths each year and avoid climate change, the Eat-Lancet Commission says in a report published Wednesday in the medical journal The Lancet.

The commission developed the new “planetary health diet” with the goal of feeding 10 billion people, healthfully and without damaging the planet, by 2050. In order to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris agreement, the authors say, the world must drastically change the way it eats. For North Americans, this means eating 84 per cent less red meat and six times more legumes (e.g. beans and lentils), according to The Guardian. Worldwide, the guidelines require sugar consumption to be slashed by half.

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“Transformation to healthy diets by 2050 will require substantial dietary shifts. Global consumption of fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes will have to double, and consumption of foods such as red meat and sugar will have to be reduced by more than 50 per cent,” said Walter Willett, professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and co-chair of the commission. “A diet rich in plant-based foods and with fewer animal source foods confers both improved health and environmental benefits.”