TY - JOUR
T1 - Dietitians Australia position statement on healthy and sustainable diets
AU - Barbour, Liza
AU - Bicknell, Ellyn
AU - Brimblecombe, Julie
AU - Carino, Stefanie
AU - Fairweather, Molly
AU - Lawrence, Mark
AU - Slattery, Juliet
AU - Woods, Julie
AU - World, Elizabeth
N1 - Funding Information:
Liza Barbour, Ellyn Bicknell, Stefanie Carino, Molly Fairweather, and Julie Brimblecombe are members of Dietitians Australia. Elizabeth World is a staff member of Dietitians Australia. Mark Lawrence is a representative of Dietitians Australia's Advocacy and Policy Advisory Committee (APAC). The first author received funding from Dietitians Australia to lead the development of this paper.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Dietitians Australia. Nutrition & Dietetics published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Dietitians Australia.
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - It is the position of Dietitians Australia that to promote human and planetary health, a food system transformation is needed that enables the population to adopt healthy and sustainable diet-related practices. A healthy and sustainable diet must (i) be nutritionally adequate, healthy and safe, (ii) have low environmental impact and be protective of natural resources and biodiversity, (iii) be culturally acceptable and (iv) be accessible, economically fair and affordable. Dietitians Australia acknowledges that it is critical to prioritise Indigenous knowledges in consultation, policy-making and implementation processes to achieve these recommendations. In facilitating the uptake of healthy and sustainable diets, dietitians are contributing to the transformation of our current food system that is urgently required to nourish present and future generations within planetary boundaries. In developing this position statement, opportunities for future research have been identified including those to advance the professions' capacity to improve environmental sustainability outcomes across all areas of practice. To achieve a population-level shift towards this diet, Dietitians Australia recommends: (i) the development of a National Food and Nutrition Strategy which honours Indigenous knowledges on food systems, (ii) the integration of sustainability principles in Australia's dietary guidelines, (iii) the reorientation of our food environment to prioritise access to healthy and sustainable foods, and (iv) investment in capacity building activities to equip the current and future nutrition and dietetics workforce.
AB - It is the position of Dietitians Australia that to promote human and planetary health, a food system transformation is needed that enables the population to adopt healthy and sustainable diet-related practices. A healthy and sustainable diet must (i) be nutritionally adequate, healthy and safe, (ii) have low environmental impact and be protective of natural resources and biodiversity, (iii) be culturally acceptable and (iv) be accessible, economically fair and affordable. Dietitians Australia acknowledges that it is critical to prioritise Indigenous knowledges in consultation, policy-making and implementation processes to achieve these recommendations. In facilitating the uptake of healthy and sustainable diets, dietitians are contributing to the transformation of our current food system that is urgently required to nourish present and future generations within planetary boundaries. In developing this position statement, opportunities for future research have been identified including those to advance the professions' capacity to improve environmental sustainability outcomes across all areas of practice. To achieve a population-level shift towards this diet, Dietitians Australia recommends: (i) the development of a National Food and Nutrition Strategy which honours Indigenous knowledges on food systems, (ii) the integration of sustainability principles in Australia's dietary guidelines, (iii) the reorientation of our food environment to prioritise access to healthy and sustainable foods, and (iv) investment in capacity building activities to equip the current and future nutrition and dietetics workforce.
KW - diet
KW - environmental sustainability
KW - planetary health
KW - public health nutrition
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85125454690&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/1747-0080.12726
DO - 10.1111/1747-0080.12726
M3 - Article
C2 - 35233909
AN - SCOPUS:85125454690
SN - 1446-6368
VL - 79
SP - 6
EP - 27
JO - Nutrition & Dietetics
JF - Nutrition & Dietetics
IS - 1
ER -