Do you want to save water? Change your diet!

Do you want to save water and do good for your health? Change your diet and how you cook! Yes, that's what a new study that included more than 43,000 regions in the UK, France and Germany.

The researchers found that, compared to existing diets, the water needed to cook food could be reduced from 11% to 35% for healthy foods containing meat, from 33% to 55% for healthy vegetarian diets.

The study carried out by the Joint Research Center compared the three diets defined by the respective national food guidelines to current food consumption, using data from more than 43 000 regions in France, the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom. in Germany.

The team found that eating more healthily consciously could significantly reduce the water footprint of diets. And they noted that it was consistent in all geographical entities analyzed in the study.

The study, published in the journal Sustainable Nature, is considered the most detailed food consumption water footprint ever made nationwide. It took into account various socio-economic factors of food consumption, for both existing and recommended diets.

Scientists also noted that the individual behavior of food consumption depended on socio-economic factors such as age, sex and level of education. They found that in France, the water footprint of milk consumption decreases with age in the townships analyzed.

In the whole of London, the team found a strong correlation between the water footprint of wine consumption and the percentage of the population in each area with a high level of education.

The researchers said that because of the pressure exerted by intensive animal production as well as increasing demands from different countries for animal products, adopting a richer and more resource-rich diet healthy was now a necessity.

Posted on 11 September 2018 at 19h16