Have you considered interventions pushing for healthier diets? Based on an analysis from the EAT-Lancet Commision, it looks like the global adoption of a predominantly plant-based healthy diet (described in Table 1) would decrease premature deaths of adults by 21.7 % (= (0.19 + 0.224 + 0.236)/​3). A pretty large benefit!
It would be very hard for it to be adopted globally, given a healthy diet is much more expensive than a calorie or macro sufficient diet, but maybe there are still effective interventions. I have the impression decreasing the consumption of animals is not super tractable, but, from the above, the major drivers for decreasing mortality are eating more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and nuts, and less sodium.
Hi James,
Have you considered interventions pushing for healthier diets? Based on an analysis from the EAT-Lancet Commision, it looks like the global adoption of a predominantly plant-based healthy diet (described in Table 1) would decrease premature deaths of adults by 21.7 % (= (0.19 + 0.224 + 0.236)/​3). A pretty large benefit!
It would be very hard for it to be adopted globally, given a healthy diet is much more expensive than a calorie or macro sufficient diet, but maybe there are still effective interventions. I have the impression decreasing the consumption of animals is not super tractable, but, from the above, the major drivers for decreasing mortality are eating more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and nuts, and less sodium.