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Affluence buys a diet good for human health and bad for the planet

Prosperous people in the United States tend to consume food that requires large amounts of land and water to produce.
Two Black women shopping in a grocery store, bagging up some lettuce.

Vegetables are consumed more often by higher-income people in the United States than by those with fewer means. Credit: Granger Wootz/Getty

Wealthy Americans eat a better-balanced and more nutritious diet than do those in lower income groups, but their food habits are a bigger burden on the environment.

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Nature 597, 154 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02404-x

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