Empirical studies reviewed that health literacy on planetary
health diets is now being recognized as the interlinks between environmental
sustainability, nutritional health and the obesity epidemic. In 2022, 2.5
billion adults were overweight globally, including 890 million who were living
with obesity, which is a known mediator in the relationship between diet and
cardiovascular disease. Today cardiovascular disease is still the leading cause
of diet-related deaths globally. And obesity-related non-communicable diseases
also come at great cost to the global community and are arising in line with
the current unsustainable dietary trend. Despite livestock products providing
one-third of humanity’s protein intake, however, they are a contributing cause
of obesity and the top two or three most significant contributors to the most
serious ecological problems that intensify adverse impacts on our
eco-environments with substantial greenhouse gas sources that drive climate
change. This paper synthesized the signification of health literacy on
planetary health diets, as an integral part of nutrition transition under this
age of eco-environmental and climate-mediated health risks during the
Anthropocene transition. It is utterly critical to the challenges of ecological
public health towards the trend of planetary health diets in this 21st century.
And that will require systemic approaches that take full account of social,
economic, ecological and evolutionary factors. Thus, all health professionals
should recognize the need to keep abreast with this evolving health literacy by
necessitating a holistic notion of ecological public health education towards
the 22nd century.
Author(s) Details
Alice
M. L. Li
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, SAR, China, CLST,
HKU SPACE, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, China and The Hong Kong
Metropolitan University, Hong Kong, SAR, China.
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