What You Need to Know about the Planetary Health Diet ...

The planetary diet is a weekly meal plan that encourages people to eat up to 80% less red meat than before, along with 15 times more nuts and seeds. With around 2,500 calories to play with, this is what a normal planetary diet week would look like…

14 grams of red meat, 29 grams of chicken, 28 grams of fish, 50 grams of nuts and 75 grams of legumes per day.

Every plate of food that you eat should be made up of at least half fruit and vegetables. 300 grams of vegetables, 200 grams of fruit and 50 grams of more starchy vegetables like potatoes.

The guidelines are that you should be looking to eat a similar amount of carbohydrates per day as the fruit and veg that you eat, but only the ‘good’ types of carbohydrates like brown bread, brown rice, and brown pasta. Around 232 grams of whole grains is ideal.

Like meat and starchy vegetables, you should be aiming to limit dairy to a smaller amount than before. It should be around one and a half eggs and 250 grams of dairy, which translates as about one glass of full milk per week!

In terms of extras outside of the key protein, fibre, and carbohydrates, the limit for sugar is about 31 grams, along with 50 grams of oil like olive oil per day.

So, what are the benefits of this stricter diet? Essentially, if everyone were to follow it, not only can you gain a lot of health positives, but you can boost the chances of us saving the planet thanks to the lower red meat consumption.