Compared to most animal-based foods, foods made from nuts, fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, and some seafoods increased lifespan and had a minimal carbon footprint. While the authors assigned minutes of healthy life gained or lost to servings of various foods, these “minutes” were just a handy way to visualize the data; they were not supposed to be taken literally, as did the media when they talked of predicting your lifespan based on your hotdog intake!
This Study Summary was published on October 3, 2021.