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<blockquote data-quote="Winnie53" data-source="post: 2220607" data-attributes="member: 160246"><p>I summarized Ede's presentation for my husband this morning. He did a quick search on "eat lancet diet" and brought up the question of funding, so I did a google search on "who funded the EATLancet". The first search result was an blog post by Nina Teicholz of Nurtition Coalition.</p><p></p><p>It's a good read... <a href="https://www.nutritioncoalition.us/news/eatlancet-report-one-sided" target="_blank">https://www.nutritioncoalition.us/news/eatlancet-report-one-sided</a></p><p></p><p>Here's an excerpt from the above linked blog post regarding funding...</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>One Other Significant Funder of EAT-Lancet: The Wellcome Trust</em></span></strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Among the complex network of funders behind EAT, the Wellcome Trust is a principal one, for the report’s scientific component (as opposed to the worldwide PR). The trust, with $29.2 billion in assets, is funded by the Wellcome family and its pharmaceutical fortune. This family also has <a href="https://isupportgary.com/articles/is-the-eat-lancet-vegan-rule-book-hijacking-health" target="_blank">a three-generation history in the 7th Day Adventist Church</a>, including a member—the father of the trust’s founder—who was a church elder. The 7th Day Adventist Church promotes vegetarianism as part of its religious beliefs and has pursued an <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/9/9/251" target="_blank">aggressive mission to spread these beliefs and practices around the world</a>. This raises the disturbing question of whether a religious agenda might be informing the EAT-Lancet report.</em></p><p></p><p>I also found the EAT website, which goes into more detail about funding...</p><p></p><p><a href="https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet-commission/eat-lancet-funding/" target="_blank">https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet-commission/eat-lancet-funding/</a></p><p></p><p>A few months ago, this study was published...</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Affordability of the EAT–<em>Lancet</em> reference diet: a global analysis</strong></span></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><em>Summary</em></strong></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><em>Background</em></strong></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>The EAT–Lancet Commission drew on all available nutritional and environmental evidence to construct the first global benchmark diet capable of sustaining health and protecting the planet, but it did not assess dietary affordability. We used food price and household income data to estimate affordability of EAT–Lancet benchmark diets, as a first step to guiding interventions to improve diets around the world.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><em>Methods</em></strong></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>We obtained retail prices from 2011 for 744 foods in 159 countries, collected under the International Comparison Program. We used these data to identify the most affordable foods to meet EAT–Lancet targets. We compared total diet cost per day to each country's mean per capita household income, calculated the proportion of people for whom the most affordable EAT–Lancet diet exceeds total income, and also measured affordability relative to a least-cost diet that meets essential nutrient requirements.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><em>Findings</em></strong></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>The most affordable EAT–Lancet diets cost a global median of US$2·84 per day (IQR 2·41–3·16) in 2011, of which the largest share was the cost of fruits and vegetables (31·2%), followed by legumes and nuts (18·7%), meat, eggs, and fish (15·2%), and dairy (13·2%). This diet costs a small fraction of average incomes in high-income countries but is not affordable for the world's poor. We estimated that the cost of an EAT–Lancet diet exceeded household per capita income for at least 1·58 billion people. The EAT–Lancet diet is also more expensive than the minimum cost of nutrient adequacy, on average, by a mean factor of 1·60 (IQR 1·41–1·78).</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><em>Interpretation</em></strong></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Current diets differ greatly from EAT–Lancet targets. Improving diets is affordable in many countries but for many people would require some combination of higher income, nutritional assistance, and lower prices. Data and analysis for the cost of healthier foods are needed to inform both local interventions and systemic changes.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><em>Funding</em></strong></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Read full study here... <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(19)30447-4/fulltext" target="_blank">https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(19)30447-4/fulltext</a></p><p></p><p>And here's the EAT website...</p><p></p><p><a href="https://eatforum.org/" target="_blank">https://eatforum.org/</a></p><p></p><p>This is a video from the diet's launch in early 2019...</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]mnlaBhD-124[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Winnie53, post: 2220607, member: 160246"] I summarized Ede's presentation for my husband this morning. He did a quick search on "eat lancet diet" and brought up the question of funding, so I did a google search on "who funded the EATLancet". The first search result was an blog post by Nina Teicholz of Nurtition Coalition. It's a good read... [URL]https://www.nutritioncoalition.us/news/eatlancet-report-one-sided[/URL] Here's an excerpt from the above linked blog post regarding funding... [INDENT][B][SIZE=5][I]One Other Significant Funder of EAT-Lancet: The Wellcome Trust[/I][/SIZE][/B] [I] Among the complex network of funders behind EAT, the Wellcome Trust is a principal one, for the report’s scientific component (as opposed to the worldwide PR). The trust, with $29.2 billion in assets, is funded by the Wellcome family and its pharmaceutical fortune. This family also has [URL='https://isupportgary.com/articles/is-the-eat-lancet-vegan-rule-book-hijacking-health']a three-generation history in the 7th Day Adventist Church[/URL], including a member—the father of the trust’s founder—who was a church elder. The 7th Day Adventist Church promotes vegetarianism as part of its religious beliefs and has pursued an [URL='https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/9/9/251']aggressive mission to spread these beliefs and practices around the world[/URL]. This raises the disturbing question of whether a religious agenda might be informing the EAT-Lancet report.[/I][/INDENT] I also found the EAT website, which goes into more detail about funding... [URL]https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet-commission/eat-lancet-funding/[/URL] A few months ago, this study was published... [SIZE=6][B]Affordability of the EAT–[I]Lancet[/I] reference diet: a global analysis[/B][/SIZE] [INDENT][SIZE=5][B][I]Summary[/I][/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][B][I]Background[/I][/B][/SIZE] [I]The EAT–Lancet Commission drew on all available nutritional and environmental evidence to construct the first global benchmark diet capable of sustaining health and protecting the planet, but it did not assess dietary affordability. We used food price and household income data to estimate affordability of EAT–Lancet benchmark diets, as a first step to guiding interventions to improve diets around the world.[/I] [SIZE=4][B][I]Methods[/I][/B][/SIZE] [I]We obtained retail prices from 2011 for 744 foods in 159 countries, collected under the International Comparison Program. We used these data to identify the most affordable foods to meet EAT–Lancet targets. We compared total diet cost per day to each country's mean per capita household income, calculated the proportion of people for whom the most affordable EAT–Lancet diet exceeds total income, and also measured affordability relative to a least-cost diet that meets essential nutrient requirements.[/I] [SIZE=4][B][I]Findings[/I][/B][/SIZE] [I]The most affordable EAT–Lancet diets cost a global median of US$2·84 per day (IQR 2·41–3·16) in 2011, of which the largest share was the cost of fruits and vegetables (31·2%), followed by legumes and nuts (18·7%), meat, eggs, and fish (15·2%), and dairy (13·2%). This diet costs a small fraction of average incomes in high-income countries but is not affordable for the world's poor. We estimated that the cost of an EAT–Lancet diet exceeded household per capita income for at least 1·58 billion people. The EAT–Lancet diet is also more expensive than the minimum cost of nutrient adequacy, on average, by a mean factor of 1·60 (IQR 1·41–1·78).[/I] [SIZE=4][B][I]Interpretation[/I][/B][/SIZE] [I]Current diets differ greatly from EAT–Lancet targets. Improving diets is affordable in many countries but for many people would require some combination of higher income, nutritional assistance, and lower prices. Data and analysis for the cost of healthier foods are needed to inform both local interventions and systemic changes.[/I] [SIZE=4][B][I]Funding[/I][/B][/SIZE] [I]Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. [/I] Read full study here... [URL]https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(19)30447-4/fulltext[/URL][/INDENT] And here's the EAT website... [URL]https://eatforum.org/[/URL] This is a video from the diet's launch in early 2019... [MEDIA=youtube]mnlaBhD-124[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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