Our food choices have a big impact on both individual health issues and environmental issues worldwide. Food production accounts for almost one-third of greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans, which shows a clear correlation between our diets and health problems like obesity and heart disease. The Paris Agreement emphasizes how urgently we must alter our dietary habits.
Reducing red and processed meat consumption and increasing fruits, vegetables, and legumes in the diet can help reduce carbon emissions and improve health. However, it might be difficult to break bad eating habits because of the variety and complexity of dietary options.
Encouraging modest dietary changes, like choosing chicken instead of beef, can have a greater positive effect and be more doable than more radical ones, like turning vegetarian. More study is necessary to find easy dietary substitutes that can improve human health and the environment in a variety of demographics, given the complexity of food options and the difficulties in altering eating habits.