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Eating ‘for the planet’ risks human health

Ever since a “planetary diet” known as EAT-Lancet was published in 2019, nutritionists have been worried that our move towards more plant foods would involve a serious cost to human health. (The EAT-Lancet authors were organized by a foundation close to the World Economic Forum and, at the time, the United Nations, to fulfill sustainability goals.) 

A principal concern with EAT-Lancet was that such a heavily plant-based diet would be deficient in essential nutrients, especially those in a “bio-available” form that humans can digest. The first person to sound the alarm, as far as we know, was the nutrition expert Zoe Harcombe, whose analysis of EAT-Lancet found that the diet would be deficient in vitamins B12, D, K and A (retinol, the form we can absorb) as well as the minerals sodium, potassium, calcium, iron and probably omega-3 fatty acids.

Now a comprehensive paper– a systematic review of the scientific literature–has largely confirmed Harcombe’s assessment.